Holy Colony Burning Acres, into te reo Māori.
The album was originally going to be poems, written by Kingi, but in his words, the poems were “pretty s....”
Working with co-writer Delaney Davidson, the pair went back to the drawing board.
“I just started talking about my experience of work or whatever, and I didn’t realise he was taking out little gems, that just sounded like things I said normally, but when he put it down in this format, it looked like something real legit.
“After four days we had the album.”
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Kingi’s latest album is the fifth in his 101010 series, where he plans to write 10 albums in 10 years, spanning 10 genres.