King Isis Close The Trilogy With The Raw And Reflective ‘SIRENITY'

King Isis close their three-part chapter with SIRENITY, a compact and chaotic EP that doesn’t aim to resolve anything. Instead, it embraces discomfort, moving through indie grunge, R&B, acoustic alt-pop and distorted rock with help from Bartees Strange, Monte Booker, Greyskiin and Estelle Allen. It’s not an ending, it’s a reset.

Where scales and shed had more structure, SIRENITY refuses to stay in place. It’s loose and deliberately blurred. ‘LATELY’, co-produced with Bartees, leans into vulnerability without over-explaining. ‘PERMANENTLY BROKEN’ opens the record with jagged guitars and a restless, unresolved edge, capturing a tension between self-awareness and self-doubt.

King Isis has always moved between genres without losing grip on who they are. That identity = queer, nonconforming, outsider - is what holds it all together. These songs feel like they’re made for the people still figuring it out. There’s polish here, but it’s not trying to impress you. It just wants to feel real.

Tracks like ‘TEARS DON’T CRY (IN A RIVER)’ and ‘BAD 4 ME’ expand the mood without breaking it, each one layering textures that sound equally homegrown and haunted. They don’t follow a clear arc, but they all orbit the same questions: What do you keep? What do you let go of?

‘TUESDAY IN LA (voice memo)’ cuts through the middle of the EP like a dropped call. It’s quiet, fragmented and rough, which may be the point, but it jars against the rest. It offers intimacy, but also exposes the gap between concept and execution.

Still, the final track pulls it back. ‘LATELY’ earns its crescendo. “Maybe I’m the problem,” Isis sings, not as a confession but clarity. The payoff lands. The mess has weight.

SIRENITY isn’t for everyone. It’s rough around the edges, emotionally dense and occasionally contradictory. But that’s also why it works. It speaks to anyone who’s felt in-between, too much, too strange. It’s a short project with a long echo, unresolved, imperfect, honest.

It’s not the end of the story. But it’s a clear end to a phase. And that’s enough.