Gracie Gray announces her new album - anna - out February 4, 2022 via London tastemaker label Hand In Hive (Wyldest, A.O. Gerber, Blackaby). The Los Angeles singer, songwriter and producer also shares a new video for lead track ‘alienlover’ - a gently crunching, wholly infectious indie-pop song.
‘alienlover’ provides the perfect introduction into Gray’s musical world, where lo-fi bedroom production - all her own work across the accompanying album - sits alongside warm, catching synth lines and moments of dark and brooding atmosphere for fans of Skullcrusher, Mazzy Star and Lomelda. All of this topped with a delicate yet commanding vocal, honed while studying opera at college.
According to Gray: “’alienlover’ is related to a narrative I created that was inspired by a dream. The idea is that an alien could fall in love with a woman but knows it cannot be with them. It watches her life on earth from above, sending her signs of its presence. The alien communicates its adoration for her by sending down art for artists to see in their mind and create, whether it be a song, dance, painting, etc. The woman experiences certain art throughout her life and knows it’s for her. She feels loved and seen, but isn’t sure how or why.”
Written early last year, the song appeared to Gray in a dream following a show she saw at The Satellite in her native L.A. She explains: “This song means a lot to me because I feel like I barely wrote it consciously, which led to a lot of thought about how many artists think that some songs are already there in the room when they write them down; that they were just open to hearing them, and were in the right place at the right time. I do believe that some songs are similar to living organisms that we create, share with the world, and then they live longer than us, being with people in moments and places we could never. They can end up moving things around inside of people’s minds that nothing else could, giving them a completely different perspective on a situation.”
01. maybe
02. anna
03. love you
04. sisters
05. alienlover
06. dig
07. warm the beach
08. happiness
09. don’t you agree
10. hi(de)
Photo credit: Sergio De La Torre
