{"id":2432163,"date":"2026-05-26T04:30:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2432163"},"modified":"2026-05-26T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T04:30:24","slug":"new-music-monday-grey-divorce-quietly-releases-new-album-while-living-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/new-music-monday-grey-divorce-quietly-releases-new-album-while-living-in-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Monday: grey divorce quietly releases new album while living in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victoria and Vancouver Island have a lot of musical talent, and Victoria Buzz wants to highlight some of the best and brightest local artists and bands.<\/span><\/p>\n

Every Monday, there will be a fresh \u2018New Music Monday\u2019 article to help people find and support local artists and bands that are up-and-coming, well established or hidden gems!<\/span><\/p>\n

For this endeavour, Victoria Buzz has partnered with our good friends at <\/span>CFUV 101.9 FM<\/b><\/a>, UVic\u2019s campus radio station, to find and select the musicians and bands for this regular column.<\/span><\/p>\n

To date, there have been 78 New Music Monday features published through this collaboration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This week, <\/span>grey divorce<\/b><\/a> is the New Music Monday highlight!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

grey divorce started out as the solo project of Marco Bernardez-Lai, allowing him to expand his horizons as a musician, producer and songwriter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernardez-Lai has played in several projects and bands. Most recently, he was in Victoria-based Teenage Art Scene, but sought another way of making the many songs he had written come to fruition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cgrey divorce kind of emerged as a home recording project that I\u2019d been concocting for quite a while,\u201d Bernardez-Lai told Victoria Buzz.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI have quite a huge backlog of songs that ended up being like diary entries\u2014trying to grow into my sound by trying to emulate the sound of artists that I admire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He says that he never really thought about releasing his home recordings, but then began hanging out with other Victoria bedroom-recording artists who were releasing their music, so he decided to give it a go.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

grey divorce recently released a new full-length album of Americana\/country-gaze tunes called <\/span>my luck has changed.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Bernardez-Lai says he was inspired for this album by paying attention to what other musicians in Victoria are doing, finding himself singing and playing in similar styles to others in the scene.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He also noted that he was inspired to write this album by artists like Sparkle Horse, and the way he finds it easier to write about animals and nature than he does human experiences.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI like the way that [animals] move in tandem with humanity, but also apart from it\u2014there\u2019s such a great thing, knowing that there\u2019s beings out there that know of us, but we aren\u2019t the centre, you know,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHow does a cow see us, right? The cow is probably more occupied with the grass it\u2019s eating than the farmer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He wrote these songs between summer 2024 and summer 2025, when he moved to Edinburgh, Scotland.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Bernardez-Lai, he held off on the album\u2019s release for so long because he was fighting the urge to keep tinkering away at the songs, rather than letting them be.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI exported all the files, was going to work on them when I was in Edinburgh, but I did not touch them until I released them,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI was so certain I was going to fix everything, and I just had to wait enough so I could be okay with the fact that some stuff was like, kinda bad\u2014perfect is the enemy of good, right?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Once Bernardez-Lai came to the decision to release the album as-is, he came up with the album name and had an album cover made before quietly releasing the record online.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With <\/span>my luck has changed, <\/span><\/i>grey divorce landed on the CFUV top 30 charts for three consecutive weeks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Highlight Track \u2013 \u201cin pasture\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

grey divorce chose to highlight the song \u201cin pasture\u201d from <\/span>my luck has changed, <\/span><\/i>as the highlight track for this New Music Monday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernardez-Lai says that this song is the defining song of the album for him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the one that I think reflects my ethos of the album the best,\u201d he explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis song is sort of about reckoning with a feeling of danger and risk in life, knowing that some things are just bound to happen.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He noted that for himself, he has found power in being content with what is happening in life\u2014the good, the bad and everything in between.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One main line of the song reads, \u201chappy in pastures green, troubles are waiting on me\u201d and Bernardez-Lai likes this because it reflects the perspective of various types of farm animals on a farm.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re always in danger of something bad happening, or something disturbing; however, you have to reckon with that in order to do anything.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cChew the cud,\u201d he laughed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bernardez-Lai also noted that there is a noticeable musical change partway through the song when he uses a sample of a man being chased by a bleating goat at the Beacon Hill petting zoo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Check out \u201cin pasture\u201d by grey divorce<\/span> below:<\/span><\/p>\n