Today Kentish Town-based singer-songwriter Grand Pax has shared new track ‘”ATV”, which is taken from her forthcoming EP Wavey that is due for release on November 20th via London indie label Blue Flowers (Nilufer Yanya, Puma Blue, Westerman). Listen to “ATV” and watch its lyric video HERE.
“ATV came to me pretty quickly,” Pax says. “Some tracks can be really vivid, so writing them is quite quick, the ideas came to me right away. I think because at the time, with lock down we were just repeating the same rhythms, in the same place, walking the same streets, eating the same shit. I was thinking about things on repeat, and I started to feel like my head was just a receptor for the same images, and thoughts. Everything looked like dark purple static.”
Following the release of her celebrated PWR EP, Grand Pax returns with Wavey, a collection of three new tracks expanding on her dusky bedroom-pop and spoken-word-influenced stylings.“Each time I’m given the opportunity to release music, I feel stronger as an artist,” the Goldsmiths-educated musician says. “I speak through these tracks, so if you wanna get to know me that’s the best way!”
Pax paints a hazy coming-of-age picture with nostalgic lyrics improvised during studio sessions. “I like to write without thinking too much about what I want from it, but generally I take reference from my own life, and I think I’m always absorbing what’s going on around me,” she explains. “The ideas kind of carve their own valleys, and I’m not sure how much control I actually have.”
The EPopens with synaesthetic lead single “Wavey“, followed by “ATV,” a blissfully subdued introspection of reoccurring dreams and fantasies. “I was touching on how dreams are just moving images, and they exist only in your head, and can just circle like a film on repeat”. Both songs were produced by rising production duo Exmoor Emperor (Christian Alexander, Ama Lou, Rationale), and mixed by David Wrench (the XX, Frank Ocean, Georgia). Closing track “Trip”, produced and mixed byGotts Street Park’s Josh Crockerfeatures shadowy soundscapes invoking nocturnal melancholy inspired by the film Drive. “I imagined moving in a kind of slow motion, sitting back in a space,” Pax says. “Feeling everything in a way that was being narrated.”
Grand Pax first shot to ascendance with acclaimed debut single “Comet” in 2018, heralded by Pitchfork as “a soothing anthem for anyone prone to overthinking it.” 2020 has already seen the release her second EP PWR, drawing in fans from Dazed, Electronic Sound, & The Line of Best Fit, who compare Pax to “fellow Londoners like King Krule, Tirzah, and Arlo Parks—the soulful and serious Brexit Britain generation whose smoky sounds flutter around the Big Smoke,” as well as being named one of Pigeons & Planes Best New Artists. PWR’s title track and lead single was named BBC Radio 1’s Introducing Track of the Week, to date Grand Pax has seen support at Radio One from Annie Mac, Phil Taggart, Huw Stephens, Jack Saunders and Jamz Supernova.
Wavey EP track listing:
1. Wavey
2. ATV
3. Trip
purchase or stream “Wavey” HERE.
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