Kim Petras returns with Detour, a self-released studio album issued via BunHead Records and built around club pressure, emotional directness, and a fully reclaimed creative system.
The album’s fifth music video, Brutalist, is also out now, extending the project’s rough-edged visual world through another self-shaped statement.
Executive produced by Petras and Margo XS, Detour locks thirteen tracks into a sharp pop system: glossy hooks, club instinct, clipped detail, and enough grit to dodge over-polish.
Production from Margo XS, Frost Children, Nightfeelings, Porches, and others, plus the late SOPHIE on Basketball with BC Kingdom, gives the album its fractured high-pop edge.
The visual rollout keeps that roughness alive: iPhone-shot imagery, found ephemera, roadwork references, second-hand styling, and self-funded videos from Freak It to Brutalist turn the campaign into DIY pop infrastructure, not label gloss.
Following the YouTube and SoundCloud-only Pretour EP, recent DJ sets, fashion-week appearances, and a Fallon performance of Jeep, Petras pushes Detour as both comeback and control move.
With Detour, Kim Petras doesn’t just restart the engine. She rebuilds the whole vehicle mid-traffic. Pop machinery, but with grease on its hands.