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SAYA GRAY
releases debut album
SAYA

Stream album HERE

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“Immediate and intuitive, SAYA plays like a string of dispatches delivered straight from the throes of heartache.” – Stereogum

“Her sound has hints of alt-rock and psychedelic-R&B, making for truly exhilarating sonic landscapes in her songs.” – Rolling Stone

“an addictive sound, full of textural experimentation and unexpected, yet intimate and lovable lyricism.” -Alternative Press

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Today, immeasurably talented experimental artist Saya Gray releases her highly-anticipated debut album SAYA via Dirty Hit. The project was heralded in by previous singles “SHELL ( OF A MAN ),” “H.B.W,” and “LIE DOWN..,” and serves as a flawless 10-track introduction.

Since her first project release, the critically-acclaimed 19 MASTERS, only a couple years ago, Saya Gray has become globally defined by the undefinable – an artist whose work is limitless, beguiling, intimate, exhilarating and truly unlike any other musician releasing songs right now.  It’s easy to call something “one of one;” it’s harder to live it, breathe it, encapsulate it, and share it with the world:  Saya Gray embodies that rarified space and invites everyone in.

Somewhat of a musical nomad, Saya bounds from genre to genre with a natural elegance, blurring the lines between them so seamlessly you don’t think twice. “SHELL ( OF A MAN )” draws from Country music, a sound that makes an appearance for the first time in Gray’s output, opening with a twang fueled guitar riff and vengeful lyrics, but is flipped on its head with sweet and airy vocals collaged a few times over. The resulting track is something that feels like a familiar breakup anthem, with resonant lyrics like “I’m still hung up on cobwebs,” but has what can only be characterized as a disjointed, uniquely-Saya melody that sets it apart from the rest.

Ahead of release, the project was championed by outlets like NPR All Songs Considered in their list of 2025’s most-anticipated albums, Pitchfork’s 32 Most Anticipated Albums of 2025, Rolling Stone’s Pop Acts We’re Most Excited About This Year, Alternative Press’ 25 Most Exciting Artists to Watch, Stereogum’s Artists to Watch, and HITS New & Developing Q1. Last year The New York Times also placed “AA Bouquet for Your 180 Face” (from her EP QWERTY II) at #22 on their ‘Best Songs of 2024’ roundup.
SAYA finally came after the dissolution of a troubled romantic entanglement; Gray booked a flight to Japan in the fall of 2023. And like a feel-good movie protagonist, Gray detangled herself from the outstanding psychic ties by journeying solo on a cross-country road trip. Moved by the vastness of albums by The Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as her Canadian folk forebear, Joni Mitchell, Gray kept an acoustic guitar in the passenger’s seat, just in case inspiration would strike. In recording SAYA, Gray sanded and fine tuned the rough edges of records past into more cohesive works of melodic folk songcraft. 

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