Kindness (musician)

Kindness is the solo project of English singer Adam Bainbridge. His debut album, World, You Need a Change of Mind, co-produced by Philippe Zdar was released on 16 March 2012.
Amina Desai is his grandmother. John Blacking is his uncle.

In 2007, Adam Bainbridge was a recipient of the Eric James Johnson Memorial Fellowship, at The Philadelphia Institute for Advance Study.

Live in Philly was Adam Bainbridge's contribution to the Eric James Johnson Memorial Fellowship program. It consists of an album recorded during his stay at the Institute in May 2007, and a small pamphlet illustrating the work, typeset by hand. Employing a variety of musicians from the Institute and the rest of Philadelphia, as well as sound sources and records found or recorded in the city, the Kindness album is a personal and welcome contribution to the Institute's body of work.

— The Philadelphia Institute for Advance Study, [1]

Live in Philly was released in 2007 as a free MP3 download and CDr, with no label.

In 2009, Moshi Moshi Records released Kindness debut single Swingin’ Party. Gee Up was included on the vinyl b-side and a VHS video directed by Jack Latham accompanied it.

In October 2011, Cyan was released as a limited edition 12" vinyl through Kindness's own record label Female Energy in the UK and Terrible Records in North America. The B-side contained 3 unnamed lock grooves.

Kindness's debut album, World, You Need a Change of Mind, co-produced & mixed by Grammy Award-winning producer Philippe Zdar was released on 16 March 2012. Live sessions were recorded for Radio 1's Zane Lowe and Rob da Bank as well as 6Music's Lauren Laverne, Live from Maida Vale. Kindness also played the iTunes Festival 2012.

In 2013, Kindness contributed to production and instrumentation on Blood Orange's Cupid Deluxe.

On 13 October 2014 Kindness released his sophomore album Otherness featuring contributions from Robyn, Dev Hynes, Kelela and more.

During a 2015 lecture for Red Bull Music Academy Kindness discussed his recent music career, and his gender identity and sexuality.

As a live band, Kindness has performed at a number of festivals and headline shows through the world including South by Southwest, Latitude Festival, Printemps De Bourges, Sydney Opera House, Primavera Festival, Field Day Festival, Eurockennes, Calvi on The Rocks, Oya Festival, Way Out West, Flow Festival, Summer Sonic, Bestival, We Love Green, Les in Rocks Festival, Midi Festival, and Soulwaxmas.

In May and June 2013, Kindness supported The xx as part of their Night and Day Festival in London and Berlin.

2014 saw a North American and worldwide tour.

Kindness was a support for Blood Orange's charity concert for Opus 118 School Of Music at the Apollo Theater in New York.

Adam Bainbridge has directed and co-directed a number of videos for his own Kindness project as well as for other artists, including Grizzly Bear, Blood Orange, and William Onyeabor:

Studio albums

• World, You Need a Change of Mind (16 March 2012)
• Otherness (13 October 2014)

Singles

• "Swingin Party" (28 September 2009)
• "Cyan" (26 October 2011)
• "SEOD" (8 February 2012)
• "Gee Up" (16 March 2012)
• "House" (15 June 2012)
• "That's Alright" (21 September 2012)
• "World Restart" (feat. Kelela and Ade) (12 August 2014)
• "This Is Not About Us" (4 September 2014)
• "Who Do You Love?" (feat. Robyn) (2 January 2015)

Remixes

• "Blood Orange – Uncle Ace" (Kindness remix feat. Robert Owens) (10 April 2014)
• "Röyksopp & Robyn – Monument" (Kindness remix feat. Busiswa) (15 August 2014)

Videos