LOOSE
The musical stylings of Grace Ives could be best described as "girl quietly freaking out." By blending punchy synth with her own dreamy vocals, she imbues all her work with equal parts urgency and whimsy, delivered in consistently satisfying and compact pieces of electropop. The only problem with these songs being so satisfying and compact is you want more of them, and the last time Ives dropped music was almost three years ago—which is way too long ago. So, thank god for her new single LOOSE (music video here), in which Ives ponders her Brooklyn life as a cycle of bodegas, bedbugs, and depression, toeing a fine line between a sense of liberation and some foreboding anxiety. So, stream LOOSE, but also check out her earlier stuff to hear more of those DIY instrumentals that somehow hit every pleasure point in your brain (while, underneath it all, softly channeling some highly relatable anxiety and rage). My personal favorites include: MIRROR, BABYY, ICING ON THE CAKE, ANYTHING, and WHAT’S IT FOR?.
—Alicia Devereaux, Development Assistant
