Tunstall announced through
Facebook in 2015 that a new record would be released in 2016. However, no title track, title album or release date was announced. She also revealed she was working with producer Tony Hoffer during a few chat live with the fans, where she even played live the song "
Feel It All" and what was next going to be the promotional single "Evil Eye". She recorded the album in a studio in Atwater Village,
Los Angeles, a place that inspired her a lot of songs, according to her. After her fourth studio album
Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon, two years before the album release, Tunstall had considered quitting the album music industry in order to write music for movies. She had entered the
Sundance Institute's elite Film Composers Lab in order to give her career another direction. She admitted in an interview with Broadway World: "I stopped. I gave up. I didn't want to do it anymore." Two years later,
Kin had been written and recorded in
Los Angeles and produced by Tony Hoffer. Prior to the release of the album, Tunstall claimed that she had "finally made peace with being a pop songwriter". She further added that "
Kin is very much embracing my dharma as an artist, which is to write positive songs that have muscle, but also show their vulnerability."
Kin is the first album in a trilogy of records by Tunstall, which all cover the themes of "soul, body and mind." == Composition and promotion ==