02 June 2023 - 0 Comments

coffee breath is 16-year-old Lucy Gray's second release from her upcoming EP, and it drops today.

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coffee breath will be out on all major streaming platforms including Spotify, Apple, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Tidal and Deezer. coffee breath is the second single off her debut EP, after pretty, 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. coffee breath is upbeat, dramatic, romantic and mysterious. The artists you can hear echoes of in coffee breath are people like Soccer Mommy, The Neighbourhood, Beach Weather, Lucy Dacus and Sharon Van Etten.

This single follows up her April release, pretty, which was impressively received by the public, made it on to the Hot NZ Singles Charts, was accepted into NZ on Air’s New Tracks, and currently has over 6,000 streams.

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 third single.

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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