GRACE IVES

Music has always followed Grace Ives. She was raised in New York City by music and film parents, and as a child starred in a shortlived band with now pop sensation Frankie Cosmos. But it wasn't until she graduated from MICA with a degree in graphic design, and after a brief stint at SUNY Purchase studying poetry, that she began to give music making a serious go. The songs on her new album, 'Janky Star' have a confessional quality, each one a blunt thought or feeling you may have but would never say out loud. Janky Star covers being sober, modern romance, writing a 6 page letter to your psychiatrist, and wondering if you're a narcissist. Ives describes it as 'cringe-worthy levels of honesty' where she 'mostly writes songs for people who hate...