LISTEN'THE MOST FAMILIAR STAR' (ALBUM)Mercy
The Most Familiar Star
Oldest Missing
City
It’s Not There feat. Angel Olsen
Secret Growing
Stepchild
TeethingToday, celebrated singer-songwriter, doula, and community organizer Domino Kirke releases her second full-length album, The Most Familiar Star, a luminous and soul-searching body of work that maps the emotional terrain of identity and motherhood with striking honesty.
Written in the wake of postpartum reflection, The Most Familiar Star began as an intimate attempt to reconnect with the self she felt slipping away after years of caregiving, partnership, and motherhood. But life, as always, had other plans. In the midst of the album rollout, during interviews, performances, and visual storytelling, Kirke discovered she was pregnant again. With twins.
“I set out to write an album about returning to myself after losing parts of me to motherhood, and in a beautiful twist of fate, I found out I was carrying new life again, twice over,” Kirke shares. “So, while I was promoting this work about finding balance after birth, I was doing it all while growing two new humans inside me. It’s been surreal and poetic.”
Throughout the 10 tracks on The Most Familiar Star, Kirke traces the raw, nonlinear path of emotional rebirth, grieving old selves, rediscovering forgotten desires, and learning to hold both the light and dark of transformation. The album features ethereal contributions from Angel Olsen (on the haunting “It’s Not There”), as well as production by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and Eliot Krimsky.
The sonic palette, marked by hazy synths, wistful strings, and intimate vocal layering, wraps listeners in a kind of musical cocoon. From the cathartic storytelling of “Secret Growing” (where she addresses childhood sexual abuse and re-parenting her inner child), to the fragile resilience in “Teething,” the album is a reckoning with love, identity, and the passage of time.
“The Most Familiar Star is about coming back,” Kirke explains. “It’s about who we become when no one’s watching. It’s about growing up, again and again.”
Her delicate, moving single “Stepchild” was featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show, where Kirke's performance further revealed her ability to hold emotion in its most nuanced and lived-in form. She was also recently profiled in Vogue, and her story has been covered by Rolling Stone, People, SPIN, and other major outlets, each praising her for her fearless storytelling and unmistakable voice.
With The Most Familiar Star, Kirke not only reclaims herself, she offers a roadmap for anyone navigating the tension between becoming and remembering. And now, as she prepares to welcome twins into the world, this record stands as both a closing chapter and an opening portal.
“This album gave me my voice back,” she says. “And now, I get to carry that voice into the next season of my life, with two little stars on the way.”
THE MOST FAMILIAR STAR is available everywhere now. |
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