“I’ll try to leave the party/While I’m still having fun,” sings Josh Pyke on the title track of his eighth studio album. It’s a poignant line that echoes the advice his mother used to give him, while acknowledging that Alzheimer’s robbed her of the opportunity to bow out of life on her own terms. His mother’s death informs several tracks on Kingdom Within, with “Magic” honoring her memory and the stories she told Pyke as a child, while he wrote “Sometimes Life Leaves More Than It Takes” as a reminder that, even in the face of such devastating loss, one has to believe that life’s gifts can outweigh its hardships. The remainder of Kingdom Within is similarly personal, with Pyke’s trademark brand of melancholy indie folk providing the vehicle for his musings on suffering from anxiety (“Won’t Be Heavy,” featuring Missy Higgins) and panic attacks (“Howlers”). “You’re Doing Better Than You Think You Are” is a song reassuring himself and the listener that even with all the world’s ills—particularly the influence of social media—we’re doing better than we often believe. The album concludes with “Bury My Money on the Farm,” a comment on capitalism and the behavior of billionaires, in which the singer-songwriter imagines burying his ethics, morals, and spiritual values to preserve them until they can once again exist comfortably in the world.