Students' Union: Access All Areas
Jun 25, 2026 · 24 min · 16 segments
Tom from Cam FM sat down with Kamal. for the latest edition of the Access All Areas podcast. First emerging during the pandemic through emotionally driven R&B-infused bedroom pop, Kamal. has since…
How's it been since you released your new single, Suffer, from the album?
Yeah, it's been great.
I feel like that's one that definitely resonated with me a lot.
So it's been lovely to see how it's sort of taken a little life of its own with the people that are listening to it.
It's always nice to see the sort of different emotions that it provokes in other people that you might not have expected because it didn't evoke it in yourself originally.
Okay, I was gonna say your music hits people in like a way I was telling you this, like, I think first time I met you, your music hits people in a way that like explores like, personal, like emotional honesty.
Do you feel like what is it? Has that always been like the goal of your music?
Yeah, I think honesty's also, I mean, always been a running theme in all the stuff that I make.
I feel like the best pieces of art that I consume are ones where it feels totally three-dimensional and not like characters or stories are being flattened into like just symbols of what they actually are.
It feels like there's a real depth.
And so that's what I always aim for.
I think it kind of happened inadvertently at first.
Like I wasn't specifically looking for it, but I just realised the stuff I gravitated towards most was kind of confessional.
And I feel like that type of honesty was often missing from society.
Okay.
And do you feel like that songs that you write, which becomes like a form of honesty, does it become like a form of like therapy or documentation or something entirely else?
I think it can definitely be therapeutic, especially the writing process, because sometimes you discover emotions that you initially didn't even realize you held.
And I think that's kind of the beauty of writing, not just songs, but also like journaling and stuff, which I always encourage people to do, I think is finding things out about yourself that you might have known in the dormant sort of back parts of your consciousness, but haven't fully explored or discovered in yourself consciously.
And so that's definitely a part of the process that I enjoy.
All right.
How's it been since you released your new single, Suffer, from the album?
Yeah, it's been great.
I feel like that's one that definitely resonated with me a lot.
So it's been lovely to see how it's sort of taken a little life of its own with the people that are listening to it.
It's always nice to see the sort of different emotions that it provokes in other people that you might not have expected because it didn't evoke it in yourself originally.
Okay, I was gonna say your music hits people in like a way I was telling you this, like, I think first time I met you, your music hits people in a way that like explores like, personal, like emotional honesty.
Do you feel like what is it? Has that always been like the goal of your music?
Yeah, I think honesty's also, I mean, always been a running theme in all the stuff that I make.
I feel like the best pieces of art that I consume are ones where it feels totally three-dimensional and not like characters or stories are being flattened into like just symbols of what they actually are.
It feels like there's a real depth.
And so that's what I always aim for.
I think it kind of happened inadvertently at first.
Like I wasn't specifically looking for it, but I just realised the stuff I gravitated towards most was kind of confessional.
And I feel like that type of honesty was often missing from society.
Okay.
And do you feel like that songs that you write, which becomes like a form of honesty, does it become like a form of like therapy or documentation or something entirely else?
I think it can definitely be therapeutic, especially the writing process, because sometimes you discover emotions that you initially didn't even realize you held.
And I think that's kind of the beauty of writing, not just songs, but also like journaling and stuff, which I always encourage people to do, I think is finding things out about yourself that you might have known in the dormant sort of back parts of your consciousness, but haven't fully explored or discovered in yourself consciously.
And so that's definitely a part of the process that I enjoy.
All right.
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