Listening to Gracie Abrams' debut album, Good Riddance, sometimes feels like you're eavesdropping on a conversation. An aching breakup record, Good Riddance is neat and clipped at a sparse 12 tracks which takes you through the turbulent and sometimes hard-to-listen-to realities of a breakup.
It's a magnificently coherent listen, especially for someone's debut album...but then again, Gracie Abrams has been inviting people into her own secret world for years.
But now she's ready to let everyone in. It's not that much of secret anymore. Three years in the making, Good Riddance makes good on a promise first teased by Gracie's first projects - the EPs Minor and This Is What It Feels Like, released in 2020 and 2021 respectively.
Minor, with its minimal beats and introspective, hyper-specific songwriting style, carried the torch of Lorde's Pure Heroine and early career Phoebe Bridgers, whilst also finding its home as the obsession of a new generation of female singer-songwriters, ready to carry the flame.
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