Last year, the chaotic Canadian art-pop artist Saya Gray released SAYA. That record got a Polaris nomination. In the past few months, Gray has opened for Turnstile and contributed to the Wildwood soundtrack.
Today, she resurrects her experimental EP series QWERTY. Gray released her EPs QWERTY and QWERTY II in 2023 and 2024, and now she's bringing it back with QWERTY III, a bugged-out new record with a sound that I guess I'd call glitch-grunge. Her new tracks have titles like "YOU???
HUH???" and "SPOOO0OOOOF," and they combine singer-songwriter melodies and fuzzed-out guitars with disorienting stop-start production. Here's Gray's own all-caps statement about the new EP: Q EPS ARE EXPERIMENTS BETWEEN PROJECTS. THE CATHARTIC MOMENTS THAT DON’T FIT BETWEEN ERAS OF CHANGE.
LIKE THE FOLLICULAR PHASE. OR THAT SLIM JIM BETWEEN MYSTIC AND MAD. I FEEL WEIRD BECAUSE WE’RE LIVING IN A WEIRD WORLD, AND THESE LIL MIXTAPES ARE MY DOCUMENTATION OF THAT FEELING.
A REFLECTION OF EVERYTHING. I’D RATHER MAKE HONEST SHIT THAN SOMETHING THAT FITS IN SO THESE ARE LITTLE OFFERINGS FROM THE IN-BETWEEN SPACE.. TRANSITIONS OF A FERAL WOMAN.
NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS. The QWERTY III EP is out now on Dirty Hit.
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