Kicking My Feet & Screaming
Ruel
Kicking My Feet & Screaming is the third studio album by Australian singer‑songwriter Ruel, released on June 12, 2026 through Recess Records and Giant Music as a direct sequel to his 2025 album Kicking My Feet. On streaming platforms, the project appears as a 21‑track release: ten new songs followed by the standard edition of Kicking My Feet, effectively binding the two records into a single, expanded listening experience. Ruel has described the sequel concept as less a strict narrative continuation than a sonic and emotional companion piece, with both albums inhabiting the same “universe” while focusing on different phases of love and self‑reflection.
While Kicking My Feet centers on the giddy, awkward joy of infatuation and “leaning into the cringe” of young love, Kicking My Feet & Screaming pivots toward more turbulent territory, embracing frustration, vulnerability, and the messier aftermath of relationships. The new songs, co‑produced by a team including Joel Little, Julian Bunetta, Dan Wilson, M‑Phazes, and others, push Ruel’s blend of alternative pop and R&B into slightly darker, more restless moods, framing emotional venting and overthinking as core themes. Taken together, the two albums form a diptych: the first dismantles Ruel’s need to seem “cool or profound,” while the second amplifies his tendency to go “a bit too far” emotionally, offering a fuller, more contradictory portrait of love, youth, and artistic growth in his early twenties.
Kicking My Feet & Screaming
Ruel
Kicking My Feet & Screaming is the third studio album by Australian singer‑songwriter Ruel, released on June 12, 2026 through Recess Records and Giant Music as a direct sequel to his 2025 album Kicking My Feet. On streaming platforms, the project appears as a 21‑track release: ten new songs followed by the standard edition of Kicking My Feet, effectively binding the two records into a single, expanded listening experience. Ruel has described the sequel concept as less a strict narrative continuation than a sonic and emotional companion piece, with both albums inhabiting the same “universe” while focusing on different phases of love and self‑reflection.
While Kicking My Feet centers on the giddy, awkward joy of infatuation and “leaning into the cringe” of young love, Kicking My Feet & Screaming pivots toward more turbulent territory, embracing frustration, vulnerability, and the messier aftermath of relationships. The new songs, co‑produced by a team including Joel Little, Julian Bunetta, Dan Wilson, M‑Phazes, and others, push Ruel’s blend of alternative pop and R&B into slightly darker, more restless moods, framing emotional venting and overthinking as core themes. Taken together, the two albums form a diptych: the first dismantles Ruel’s need to seem “cool or profound,” while the second amplifies his tendency to go “a bit too far” emotionally, offering a fuller, more contradictory portrait of love, youth, and artistic growth in his early twenties.