Kindness (musician)

Kindness (musician)
Kindness performing at the 2012 Inrocks Festival
Background information
Birth name	Adam Bainbridge
Born	UK
Origin	UK
Genres	Electronica, synthpop, disco, lo-fi, indietronica, downtempo
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, musician, director
Years active	2009–present
Labels	Female Energy, Terrible Records, Casablanca Records
Associated acts	Dev Hynes, Trouble Funk, Robyn
Website	kindness.es

Kindness is the solo project of British singer Adam Bainbridge. His debut album, World, You Need a Change of Mind, co-produced by Philippe Zdar^[1] was released on 16 March 2012.^[2][3]

Amina Desai is his grandmother.^[4] John Blacking is his uncle.^[5]

History

In 2007, Adam Bainbridge was a recipient of the Eric James Johnson Memorial Fellowship,^[6] at The Philadelphia Institute for Advance Study.^[7]

Live in Philly was Adam Bainbridge's contribution to the Eric James Johnson Memorial Fellowship program. It consists of an album recorded during his stay at the Institute in May 2007, and a small pamphlet illustrating the work, typeset by hand. Employing a variety of musicians from the Institute and the rest of Philadelphia, as well as sound sources and records found or recorded in the city, the Kindness album is a personal and welcome contribution to the Institute's body of work.

—The Philadelphia Institute for Advance Study, 

Live in Philly was released in 2007 as a free MP3 download and CDr, with no label.^[8]

In 2009, Moshi Moshi Records released Kindness debut single Swingin’ Party. Gee Up was included on the vinyl b-side and a VHS video directed by Jack Latham accompanied it.^[9]

In October 2011, Cyan was released as a limited edition 12" vinyl through Kindness's own record label Female Energy in the UK and Terrible Records in North America. The B-side contained 3 unnamed lock grooves.

Kindness's debut album, World, You Need a Change of Mind, co-produced & mixed by Grammy Award-winning producer Philippe Zdar^[10] was released on 16 March 2012. Live sessions were recorded for Radio 1's Zane Lowe^[11] and Rob da Bank^[12] as well as 6Music's Lauren Laverne, Live from Maida Vale.^[13] Kindness also played the iTunes Festival 2012.

In 2013, Kindness contributed to production and instrumentation on Blood Orange's Cupid Deluxe.^[14]

On October 13, 2014 Kindness released his sophomore album Otherness featuring contributions from Robyn, Dev Hynes, Kelela and more.

Live

As a live band, Kindness has performed at a number of festivals and headline shows through the world including South by Southwest, Latitude Festival, Printemps De Bourges, Sydney Opera House, Primavera Festival, Field Day Festival, Eurockennes, Calvi on The Rocks, Oya Festival, Way Out West, Flow Festival, Summer Sonic, Bestival, We Love Green, Les in Rocks Festival, Midi Festival, and Soulwaxmas.

In May and June 2013, Kindness supported The xx as part of their Night and Day Festival in London^[15] and Berlin.

Video director

Adam Bainbridge has directed and co-directed a number of videos for his own Kindness project as well as for other artists, including Grizzly Bear, Blood Orange, and William Onyeabor:

Discography

Studio albums

• World, You Need a Change of Mind (16 March 2012)
• Otherness (13 October 2014)

Singles

• "Swingin Party" (28 September 2009)
• "Cyan" (26 October 2011)
• "SEOD" (8 February 2012)
• "Gee Up" (16 March 2012)
• "House" (15 June 2012)
• "That's Alright" (21 September 2012)

Remixes

• "Blood Orange – Uncle Ace" (Kindness remix feat. Robert Owens) (10 April 2014)
• "Röyksopp & Robyn – Monument" (Kindness remix feat. Busiswa) (15 August 2014)

Videos

References

External links

• Official website
• Kindness (musician)'s channel on YouTube
• Kindness on Facebook
• Kindness on Twitter
• Kindness on Spotify
• Kindness on Soundcloud
• Kindness at AllMusic