At 11, navigating bullying and learning challenges, XTINE was handed a laptop and introduced to GarageBand at a new school. That single moment of access redirected everything. By 12, she was writing and producing her own songs — not as a hobby, but as the primary way she processed a world that hadn’t yet made room for her. Years of that kind of self-directed, intentional craft form the foundation beneath everything she releases today.
The early chapters of her story carry weight that context alone can’t fully convey. At 12, she reached out to Sia on Twitter. Sia responded, and even danced to one of her early songs in a video. That acknowledgment arrived at a formative moment and gave her the momentum to keep going. Two years later, at 14, depression set in. Music, again, became the mechanism for survival. Her song “Beautiful Has No Cost,” released on YouTube at 15, reached people who were carrying similar weight and established early that XTINE writes to connect, not to perform.
That lineage leads directly to All the Ways We Loved, released April 10, 2026 — her most fully realized work to date. Three singles preceded the drop this year: “Held Me Right” on February 27, “Open Water” on March 13, and “I Remember” on March 27, each functioning as a chapter in the emotional arc the album now completes. At 14 tracks, All the Ways We Loved never mistakes density for depth. The production stays close to the bone, leaving the emotional architecture exposed exactly where it needs to be.
The album’s themes are consistent throughout: attachment, the clarity that arrives too late, the decision to love anyway with full knowledge of what it costs. All the songs reach for honesty.