MUNA unveil new single "Kind Of Girl"

"Kind Of Girl" follows last month's "Anything But Me" and last year's Phoebe Bridgers collaboration "Silk Chiffon", and is accompanied by a Taylor James-directed video.

MUNA's Katie Gavin says of the release, "This song is the album’s country moment, and in some ways we feel it is the heart of the record. This song explores the power of language and the words we use to describe who we are and who we want to be. Even though it is a happy, hopeful song, I shed the most tears of the record in the vocal booth recording this chorus. I think there’s something very vulnerable about plainly expressing my desire to be kinder to myself and comfortable receiving love (and my desire to garden even though I kill everything I plant)."

"The video for this song highlights another layer of meaning that we feel the song holds, which is that we as queer people are particularly vulnerable when we are sharing how we identify and how we would like to be perceived," Gavin adds. "We wanted to play with the gendered nature of this song because we all three have different relationships to girlhood (and Naomi is non-binary, so not a girl at all!). It was a gift to be able to king for this video in a way that felt earnest and comfortable and hot. The experience brought home the fact that it’s not enough for queer and trans people to be clear about who we are - we also need a community around us that hears us, believes us, honors us, and supports us. We’re very proud of what we made and grateful to everyone who was a part of it. We hope the bigots absolutely hate it. "

MUNA's upcoming self-titled third album will follow 2019's Saves The World and will include 11 songs in total.

The band's Josette Maskin said of the album last month, "What ultimately keeps us together is knowing that someone’s going to hear each one of these songs and use it to make a change they need in their life. That people are going to feel a kind of catharsis, even if it’s a catharsis that I might never have known myself, because I’m fucked up."

Naomi McPherson added, "I hope this album helps people connect to each other the way that we, in MUNA, have learned to connect to each other."