Josh Pyke Announces New Album 'Kingdom Within'

Josh Pyke

As Josh Pyke continues to celebrate the 20th anniversary of his debut EP release, Feeding The Wolves, he’s somehow found time to work on a new record.

Today, the Australian singer-songwriter has announced that his eighth album, Kingdom Within, will be released on Friday, 12 June, via ADA Music. It’s his first album in nearly five years – his seventh album, To Find Happiness, was released in November 2021.

His latest collection of songs isn’t a light-hearted affair just slapped together on tour, either: Pyke will explore “humanity’s shifting moral compass” on his eighth album.

In a rapidly developing technological landscape, Pyke aims to examine how society presently values human creativity, love, loss, and family. Album #8 was produced by ARIA Award-winning producer Chris Collins (Matt Corby, Teenage Dads). Throughout the record, Pyke puts forward a bold, artistic statement that fans will want to reach for, over and over again.  

To accompany the album announcement, Pyke has unveiled the hard-hitting title track, which you can check out below.

“This song is really about reconnecting with your moral core,” he explained in a statement. “The Kingdom Within I am referring to is our rich internal life.”

“In a world that seems really fraught at the moment and is really fragmented by not only what is going on in the political landscape but also in social media, I think it is more important than ever that we reconnect with what is important to us. This is different for everybody, but for me it's creativity, art, nature and most important of all, family.”

You can pre-order/pre-save the album here.

From this month through April, Pyke continues his Feeding the Wolves and Other Stories solo regional tour, visiting Western Australia, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and South Australia, following dates in Queensland and New South Wales. You can find tickets to the remaining shows here.

The Feeding The Wolves and Other Stories tour finds Pyke performing songs from the EP in an intimate, stripped-back fashion and recalls the stories from that early period in his career.

Upon its release in November 2005, Feeding The Wolves debuted on the ARIA Charts, and Pyke was nominated for Best Pop Release at the 2006 ARIA Awards. It’s an EP that ended up changing his life.