Ruby Gill Announces Long-Awaited New Album, 'Some Kind Of Control'
Announcing album number two today, Ruby Gill has also unveiled the deeply personal single, 'Touch Me There'.
Ruby Gill (Credit: Kira Puru/Supplied)
Fresh from a welcome return in late 2024 with the release of the single Some Kind Of Control, the acclaimed Ruby Gill has detailed her new album of the same name.
The Naarm/Melbourne-based pianist, guitarist, and singer-songwriter has today revealed that album number two will arrive on March 28th, with pre-orders for the record available now.
The follow-up to 2022’s I’m gonna die with this frown on my face, Gill’s new album is described as being much more intimate, globally-relevant, and body-focused. Or, as Gill explains, Some Kind Of Control is set to be “cheekier, looser, gayer and even more raw”.
Harnessing a sense of unflinching honesty, pairing it with a trademark witty assuredness, and delivering by way of explorations over body autonomy, politcal ruminations, and queerness, it’s a record that not only encapsulates Gill as an artist, but an individual.
The record’s announcement also comes accompanied by the single Touch Me There, which Gill describes as being her “most special creation”. It commemorates the moment she came out to herself, finally silencing “the devil that sits on my shoulder, who tries to convince me that I am an angel”.
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“During the longest dry spell of my life, I came out to myself,” Gill says of the track. “The first time I said it out loud was in this song – all that sitting by a river waiting for the truth to come out led to me being honest for the first time about who I was attracted to and what kind of sex I wanted in my life.
“It took almost two years of zero kissing to get to that point of self-knowledge. Not intentionally – everything just felt so wrong and scary after being touched in really unsafe ways before that. I was numb for years, but I finally felt sensation in my body again after writing Touch Me There. It broke me open.
“I hope it breaks other people open too, whether it’s about queerness or otherwise. You have a say over your love and pleasure.”
Backed by a backing vocal choir of treasured found family – including Annie-Rose Maloney, Hannah McKittrick, Angie McMahon, Hannah Cameron, Jess Ellwood and Oh Pep!’s Olivia Hally – the tune is also paired by a Bridgette Winten-directed music video shot at iconic queer workout and community space Pony Club Gym.
Featuring a cast of lesbian, female, trans and non-binary people, the video echoes the song’s sense of physical and emotional intimacy and strength in queer identity. As Gill explains, this was a conscious decision so as to “celebrate the bodies we're in and the resistance it is to be queer – we wanted [the video] to feel sexy, but also make you cry. That is my favourite type of intimacy.”
Gill is set to perform a show at the Brunswick Uniting Church on March 5th as part of the Brunswick Music Festival, with a headline performance at the Northcote Social Club recently announced for April 17th. Tickets to that one are on sale now.
Ruby Gill – 2025 Tour Dates
Wednesday, March 5th – Brunswick Music Festival @ Brunswick Uniting Church, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
(With Porpoise Spit and Merpire)
Thursday, April 17th – Northcote Social Club, Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
This piece of content has been assisted by the Australian Government through Music Australia and Creative Australia, its arts funding and advisory body
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