Kean Kavanagh has shared a video for his bittersweet new single ‘The Magic’, the closing track from his long-awaited new EP ‘Wrestling Music’ which examines a bleak period in Kavanagh’s life following unexpected medical problems which made him have to reevaluate his relationship with music and find new ways to be creative.

“In May 2022 I suffered a vocal injury which meant that for the majority of the last year, I haven’t been able to sing or record. While I’ve been working on a lot of different music and writing a lot of songs, it has been heartbreaking and depressing at times to not be able to realise their full potential and to sing them how I hear them,” explains Kavanagh of the torrid experience he went through.

“On the 1st of May 2023, I wrote and recorded “The Magic” at home in Portlaoise and it helped me to embrace whatever the last year was and point me in a direction to go towards. It felt important to me and I didn’t want to just sit on it, so I gathered some instrumentals I had and worked quickly to create this EP, the Wrestling Music EP, as a timestamp of this period of my life and the loops of arrogance, introversion and acceptance that I’ve been spinning.”

Kean Kavanagh will be bring ‘Wrestling Music to the stage this October with shows in London and Dublin. Details below.

Kean Kavanagh Live

10 October – London – Oslo, Hackney – Tickets HERE

14 October – Dublin – Whelan’s – Tickets HERE