Gratitude in the Gaps: Kay Soul’s 'In Between' is the Anthem for Our Waiting Seasons

July 20, 2025

Gratitude in the Gaps: Kay Soul’s 'In Between' is the Anthem for Our Waiting Seasons

There’s a pulse that settles in the breath before dawn — the thin hush between waking tears and laughing sunlight. Kay Soul, the voice that turned last summer’s Heavy Love EP into a quiet revolution, opens her notebook again and lets the ink still be music. “In Between,” her new single, landed on June 27, 2025, shaped by Anthony Smith’s production into a groove that feels like a promise. It’s the first candle flickering in the hallway of her next album, Heavy Set, a collection built on the bones of lived truth and the silk of memory.

Heavy Set arrives in August, and it's gonna feel like a storm that wards off the dark. Combine 90s R&B’s dusky afternoon light, gospel’s lifted hush, and hip-hop’s unflinching gaze, and you hold the sky Kay has woven. She names it “the diary that speaks back to my soul,” and the pages burn. Every stacked harmony, every heavy-lidded beat, dares the world’s tight seams to unpick: the myths of light skin, the grind that eats hours like candy, the invisible weight of just being. Tracks like “Fame,” “Corinthians Love,” and “Shell of Me” refuse to sit still; they dig down, unearthing chambers of refusal and of new fire.

“In Between” charts the emotional North Star for the album. Radiant, buoyant, and deeply stirring, it urges us to unearth gratitude in the uneasy hush between endings and beginnings, between every stumble and every lift. It gently insists that the heart stretches widest in the messiest soil. This single, sistered with a Vevo premiere on July 4, strums a high-vibe prelude that aims not only to entertain, but to awaken.

Recorded in the pulse of Chicago at Miller Street Studios and nurtured by producers Erik “Mr. Doublebeats” Ficklin and Byron “BJ” Woodward, the whole offering flies under her Cornerstone Drive imprint, sailing on Virgin Music Group wings. Heavy Set is the audio of a woman settling squarely into her flame. Kay Soul’s voice soars like a flare, her lyrics cut like fresh air, her honesty refuses masks. She’s not only crafting songs—she’s igniting a movement. While the world buzzes ahead, Heavy Set will pause us long enough to kneel in the hush and honor every miracle that grows In Between.