27-year-old graceives4u is pop’s most eclectic songwriter. 🎧
” came quietly on the speakers. With its clanking beat, alternating between rickety and full, and Ives’ husky voice, it stood out from the indistinctive stream of pop that was otherwise playing. It felt irreverent, playful, like it didn’t take itself too seriously but still knew the serious chops it takes to write a great pop song. The rest of her sophomore album,Though Ives, 27, has been in the music scene for some time now — she released her first EP,has become her breakout moment of sorts.
I'm so excited. I feel it's been so long since I actually sat down and wrote and recorded these songs, so there is some distance between me and the music. Just like time though and literally how I'm moving away from it because of time. But I'm so excited. It's my first bigger label situation, and I was always like, “Okay, well, let's put it out!” And it's going through this label process of being like, “Okay, no, not really. Single and then single and then album.
I think what he is so good at is hearing the little thing that it needs. He kind of filled in the missing pieces in a way that also made sense to how I work. And it was all through FaceTime, because it was quarantine and we're both homebody people. But when we finally met and went over everything that we had somehow made together, I got to see his process in real time and it was so similar to me.