The latest single from Los Angeles musician Gracie Gray is the most delicate track I’ve ever heard about people talking shit. “dig” is an intricate weave of gossamer vocals, plump bass, and a halo of an ambient drone. “So hard to be good again / To make new friends / To make amends,” Gray sings in a hushed coo. But later she finds a place of solace inside another: “I saw a flower bed / Inside my mind inside your head,” goes a line where a surreal connections forms between two people—one that makes the stings from others less biting.
Gray explained that the single “is about loving someone because you believe in them, and tuning-out people that talk shit. I felt pretty weighed down and disappointed in old friends and needed help speaking up for myself. This song is it for me. It is the feeling that even one moment of holiness with someone else can cover a multitude of unanswered questions.”
With her album anna coming out at the beginning of next year, Gray joins the ranks of rising folk-pop stars like Angelo De Augustine and Skullcrusher. Gray details the forthcoming LP, saying, it’s “about holding onto love for yourself through all of life’s changes. It looks at many huge shifts in a short period of time, and each track tries to make sense of how all relationships seem to fade, while promising to try in spite of it all.” I’m looking forward to it!
Listen to “dig” below and pre-order anna here.
