21 April 2023 - 0 Comments

Pretty is 16-year-old Lucy Gray's second release that drops on the 21st of April on all major platforms including Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal and Deezer. Pretty is the first single off Lucy's debut EP, and the first of many to be released this year! The Ōtautahi, Christchurch based musician has collaborated with visionary producers Andy and Vic Knopp from The Response to create her first EP. Pretty is a melancholic, nostalgic, Pretty song that can be described by the line in it ‘stuck in a photograph’; it's being stuck in the past, or stuck with a person that existed in the past. Its final chorus has an energetic build that creates a balance of the themes, with a beat that feels versatile, and interesting. It’s about learning to loosen your grip on something that’s hard to let go of. The artists you can hear echoes of in Pretty are people like Boygenius, Lizzy McAlpine, Gracie Abrams, Lisa Hannigan and Julia Jacklin.

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Lucy Gray is a performer, singer and songwriter and she is currently studying at Hagley School of Music. Her writing is inspired by alternative pop, pop, alternative rock & indie styles, with Gray finding a personal harmony in the less orthodox melodic & conceptual tropes usually associated with these genres.

Gray was granted a New Music Development grant from New Zealand on Air, which funded this single, along with her upcoming EP. Inspired from a young age to pursue music, and inspired by artists such as Phoebe Bridgers, Arctic Monkeys, The 1975, Noah Cyrus and Taylor Swift, she’s releasing her second single. This single follows up her 2022 single Your Name, which was impressively received by the public, and hit 7,300 streams on Spotify alone, after just 3 months.

One of the things that makes Gray’s music so interesting is the distinctive character of her voice. The recording manages to showcase the unique nature of her tone & phrasing, capturing an impressive emotional range & all while sounding effortlessly produced.

Gray has also been involved in radical activism, at 12 years old she wrote a song about climate action and how we need to join together to create change. She went on to play this song at the climate strikes, at National Young Leaders Day in 2019, at Festival for the Future in 2019 and on Radio with RNZ. Furthermore in August of this year she played at the Festival for Future 2022 with a new anthem for change, that she hopes to release.

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