Gracie Gray Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/gracie-gray/ New and independent music Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:08:13 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/varioussmallflames.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/cropped-finalwhite-e1490809629909-1.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gracie Gray Archives - Various Small Flames https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/tag/gracie-gray/ 32 32 88787050 May 2019 Roundup Mix https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2019/06/09/may-2019-roundup-mix/ Sun, 09 Jun 2019 18:47:54 +0000 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=19262 Missed something during May 2019? Here’s a mix featuring every act we covered. Real Life Buildings – Racing the Sun Nice Apple – Are You Still There? V.V. Lightbody – Babe, Honestly Nico Hedley – Late Bloomer Gracie Gray – Morphine Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else – Bloodletting Pleasure Systems – Heirloom Ana Roxanne – Slowness Kin Hana – Fog Rainwater – Pink Flowers Christelle Bofale – U Ouchea Prudence – Smile & Nod Operators – Faithless Belaver – Driver […]

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]]> Missed something during May 2019? Here’s a mix featuring every act we covered.

Real Life Buildings – Racing the Sun
Nice Apple – Are You Still There?
V.V. Lightbody – Babe, Honestly
Nico Hedley – Late Bloomer
Gracie Gray – Morphine
Spencer Radcliffe & Everyone Else – Bloodletting
Pleasure Systems – Heirloom
Ana Roxanne – Slowness
Kin Hana – Fog
Rainwater – Pink Flowers
Christelle Bofale – U Ouchea
Prudence – Smile & Nod
Operators – Faithless
Belaver – Driver
Mr Husband – Friends
Rose Hotel – Running Behind
Jeremy Squires – Somersault
Bad Books – Lake House
Yammerer – Poisonous Reptilian Colleague’s & Co
Britt – Trial Period
Wild Yawp – Femme Girl
Forest Management – Blue Leaves
Robert Stillman – Ritual
Everyone is Dirty – Hit-Girl
Merin – Coral Island
Lavender Bones – Over Again
Luke De-Sciscio – R.O.B.Y.N.
Anna Wiebe – Fortune
Young Elk – Gossip Magazines
Emma Frank – I Thought
Eamon McGrath – GUTS
Jacob Faurholt – The Dark Isn’t Right

Like what you hear? Catch up with the rest of our Monthly Mixes.

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]]> 19262 Gracie Gray – Morphine https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/2019/05/03/gracie-gray-morphine/ Fri, 03 May 2019 12:52:18 +0000 https://varioussmallflames.co.uk/?p=19085 Aside from being one half of the electro-pop duo Annaland, and playing in the now defunct folk band Leather Tramp, Los Angeles’ Gracie Gray has developed her own solo brand of dreamy folk. Combining the languorous textures of Mazzy Star with the crooned vocals and strikingly cryptic lyrics of Adrianne Lenker, Gray’s sound is enveloping and moving, its gentleness shot through with a myriad of conflicting emotions—from nostalgia and longing to flat, hard melancholy, as well as a grace found […]

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]]> Aside from being one half of the electro-pop duo Annaland, and playing in the now defunct folk band Leather Tramp, Los Angeles’ Gracie Gray has developed her own solo brand of dreamy folk. Combining the languorous textures of Mazzy Star with the crooned vocals and strikingly cryptic lyrics of Adrianne Lenker, Gray’s sound is enveloping and moving, its gentleness shot through with a myriad of conflicting emotions—from nostalgia and longing to flat, hard melancholy, as well as a grace found in the textures of experience.

Taken from her debut full-length album, Oregon in a Day, single ‘Morphine’ encapsulates the ethereal beauty of the Gracie Gray style. The delicate nature of the sound belies its darker themes, and the song grows to posses a haunting quality that seeps in the cracks. The result is a track that breathes great life into stillness, giving full body to the introspective and intimate, and addressing the balanced between pain and numbness alluded to in the title.

morphine,
cigar
jealous, i know what you mean
kevin,
black star
you listed all of your things
and you take it way too far
so no one’s love will ever reach you
yeah you take it way too far
so no one’s love
will ever reach you
will ever reach you

The song comes complete with a fittingly evocative video directed by Michael Priestley and Christian O’Keefe of Overlay Films. From the opening shot of spring trees set against a grand sky, the film foregrounds Gracie Gray’s uncanny ability to combine fine details with larger forces, and plays with a muted palette so as to fully highlight the moments of light.

Oregon in a Day is out now and you can get it from the Gracie Gray Bandcamp page. If you are in the area, there’s an album release show at the Bootleg Theatre in Los Angeles, and you can find full details here.

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