Gracie Abrams Celebrates Best New Artist Grammy Nom by Working on Next Album, Which Is ‘1 Million Percent Influenced’ by Crowd Response on Eras Tour

variety.com:

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic What a funny way of saying hello — by saying “Good Riddance.” But as Gracie Abrams happened to be saying goodbye to certain things in her life in the album of that name, she was also introducing herself to much of the general public.

Although the now-24-year-old singer-songwriter had released EPs on Interscope going back to 2021 and singles as far back as 2019, “Good Riddance” marked her first full-length album, and the first release where she really found her own voice, with some help from producer/co-writer Aaron Dessner.

So (with apologies to Joan Didion and the poet Robert Graves): Hello to all that! Variety named “Good Riddance” as one of the best albums of 2023 — debuts or otherwise — and the Recording Academy obviously agrees that Abrams is a find.

She is among the worthy performers up for best new artist at the 65th annual Grammy Awards, going down Feb. 5, 2024. “It is a wild honor to have even been considered at all for this nomination,” she says, checking in by phone from Dessner’s Long Pond studio, where they’re at work on her next album. “And to have gotten it means so much to me and is something I think I will forever be attempting to wrap my head around.