Disco-pop auteur Kindness has taken on “Some Things Never Seem To Fucking Work,” one of the most alluring, intimate songs on Solange’s 2012 True EP. Is there a better name for a song about a frustrated, failed relationship? Whereas Solange wrapped her pain in light and airy nu-disco, Kindness directs the track to a discordant place, wallowing in the dysfunctional relationship it relates instead of floating above it. Listen below.

Kindness is currently on international tour in support of his album Otherness:

02/11 Copenhagen, DK @ Frost Festival
02/13 Stockholm, SE @ Sónar Festival
02/14 Reykjavík, ISL @ Sónar Festival
02/21 Cuautla, MEX @ Carnaval de Bahadorá Festival
02/25 Los Angeles, CA @ El Rey Theatre
02/27 Santa Ana, CA @ Constellation Room
02/28 San Francisco, CA – Mezzanine
03/05 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Lounge
03/06 Seattle, WA @ Neumos
03/07 Vancouver, BC @ Biltmore Cabaret
03/08 Calgary, AB @ Commonwealth
03/10 Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock
03/11 Chicago, IL @ Lincoln Hall
03/13 Toronto, ON @ Wrongbar
03/14 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
03/15 Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade
03/18 Cambridge, MA @ The Sinclair
03/19 Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall
03/20 Philadelphia, PA @ Making Time at Voyeur
03/26 Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro
04/17 Milan, I @ Elita Festival
06/06 London, UK @ Field Day Festival
06/18 Barcelona, SP @ Sónar Festival
06/20 Tilberg, NL @ Best Kept Secret Festival
06/17 Lisbon, P – Super Bock Super Rock Festival

Otherness is out now on Female Energy/Mom + Pop.

[Photo by Pooneh Ghana.]