Kali Claire has never been one to rush her story. With How I Feel, the London-based artist, producer and songwriter finds her voice in full bloom, weaving emotion and control into a body of work that feels both intimate and assured. Across six tracks, she embraces R&B’s elegance while leaning into moments of experimentation, letting honesty shape the sound rather than formula. The result is fluid and self-contained, a quiet statement of growth from one of the UK’s most compelling emerging voices.
Opening with Platonic, Kali keeps things minimal, her voice gliding over sparse production that highlights its warmth and texture. Love On Credit follows with glowing harmonies and lyrical vulnerability, while the title track, How I Feel, featuring Moelogo, captures the push and pull between confidence and doubt. Withdrawal Symptoms drifts into reflection, before Fever with Skiifall injects syncopated energy and movement. Closing track Weak ties it all together in a blend of cinematic strings and UK garage rhythm, soft but powerful.
Written between London, Bali, Los Angeles and Vietnam, the EP traces the inner landscapes of an artist learning to move with her emotions rather than against them. “How I Feel pretty much sums me up — my mood runs the show,” she admits. With over thirty million streams and collaborations ranging from Alicia Keys to Mabel, Kali Claire continues to carve her own path, one grounded in emotion, precision and clarity. In the end, How I Feel feels less like an arrival and more like a pause, a moment suspended between where she’s been and where she might go next.