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In the fall of 2023, Grace Ives returned home to New York. After spending most of the previous year touring her critically acclaimed second album, Janky Star<\/em>, within a matter of weeks she found herself\u2014for lack of a better term\u2014crashing out. In a remarkably candid letter accompanying the musician\u2019s latest three singles\u2014released under the tongue-in-cheek title of, well, Singles<\/em>\u2014Ives recounts the period that followed: hitting rock bottom; crying and vomiting; \u201cdrinking, lying, and hiding.\u201d While Ives had been candid in the past about her difficult relationship with alcohol and drugs, things had reached a new low.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s so crazy,\u201d she tells me, clearly on the other side of that turbulent period. She\u2019s sitting, fresh-faced and with cotton candy-pink hair, in the home office of her Brooklyn apartment, surrounded by bric-\u00e0-brac. \u201cEven just trying to close my eyes and think about what happened\u2026 it feels like I wasn\u2019t myself. It doesn\u2019t feel like a true part of me, or who I am right now.\u201d She likens the experience of being holed up at home to water sitting still for too long: \u201cthings just got stagnant and murky and disgusting.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI stopped working and performing and didn\u2019t have to be in the studio, and I wasn’t taking care of myself,\u201d Ives goes on. So how does she feel today? \u201cI feel like I\u2019m just now realizing what my life is\u2014or just now feeling like I\u2019m living a real life,\u201d she replies, before breaking into a smile. \u201cIt\u2019s a little like opening all the windows in the house and letting the fresh air come in.\u201d<\/p>\n You can hear it in the music. In lieu of the hyperactive, tightly wound tracks on Janky Star<\/em>\u2014like pop songs bitten off in chunks and chewed up into strangely elegant new forms\u2014the first track of the three released last week, \u201cAvalanche,\u201d lands with an epic sweep. \u201cI want, want, want and I take, take, take \/ Feeling sorry not sorry for the mess that I make,\u201d she sings over a frenzied, ping-ponging beat before launching into a thrilling chorus packed with thundering piano chords, Enya-like synth stabs, and Ives giving it all she\u2019s got vocally.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.vogue.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the fall of 2023, Grace Ives returned home to New York. 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