#alienlover

Happy New Year! I have decided that 2024 is the year of spreading my work far and wide. As an indie author, I’ve decided to simply give away a whole bunch of my backlisted novels. They had wonderful launches and reviews when they first debuted, and now I just want people to read and enjoy them.  So spread the news, the following books are now available for free or for a very minimal token payment on certain platforms.

As J.M. Frey

The Untold Tale: Wattpad | Radish | AO3 The Skylark’s Song: Wattpad Triptych: Wattpad | Radish Time and Tide: Wattpad City by Night: Radish As Peggy Barnett (spicy)

Naughty & Nice: Radish Dear Abby: Radish Lips Like Ice: Wattpad | Radish Some of these books only have a few chapters available at present, but make sure you’re subscribed to my profile on each platform, and you’ll be notified when new chapters drop. They’ll be posted in their entirety in 2024.

Gracie Gray announces her new album - anna - out February 4, 2022 via London tastemaker label Hand In Hive (Wyldest, A.O. Gerber, Blackaby). The Los Angeles singer, songwriter and producer also shares a new video for lead track ‘alienlover’ - a gently crunching, wholly infectious indie-pop song.  

‘alienlover’ provides the perfect introduction into Gray’s musical world, where lo-fi bedroom production - all her own work across the accompanying album - sits alongside warm, catching synth lines and moments of dark and brooding atmosphere for fans of Skullcrusher, Mazzy Star and Lomelda. All of this topped with a delicate yet commanding vocal, honed while studying opera at college.

According to Gray: “’alienlover’ is related to a narrative I created that was inspired by a dream. The idea is that an alien could fall in love with a woman but knows it cannot be with them. It watches her life on earth from above, sending her signs of its presence. The alien communicates its adoration for her by sending down art for artists to see in their mind and create, whether it be a song, dance, painting, etc. The woman experiences certain art throughout her life and knows it’s for her. She feels loved and seen, but isn’t sure how or why.”

Written early last year, the song appeared to Gray in a dream following a show she saw at The Satellite in her native L.A. She explains: “This song means a lot to me because I feel like I barely wrote it consciously, which led to a lot of thought about how many artists think that some songs are already there in the room when they write them down; that they were just open to hearing them, and were in the right place at the right time. I do believe that some songs are similar to living organisms that we create, share with the world, and then they live longer than us, being with people in moments and places we could never. They can end up moving things around inside of people’s minds that nothing else could, giving them a completely different perspective on a situation.”

anna:

01. maybe 02. anna 03. love you 04. sisters 05. alienlover 06. dig 07. warm the beach 08. happiness 09. don’t you agree 10. hi(de)

Gracie Gray · alienlover