Grace Ives is a musician from Brooklyn. She writes pop songs built on minimal electronics and sharp, self-contradictory lyrics, working from a homemade studio approach shaped by influences like M.I.A.
Ives writes pop songs the way people actually think: jumpy, self-contradicting, funny in a way that stings a little. Growing up in Gowanus, she started building tracks alone with a Roland MC-505, drawn to the minimal electronics of M.I.A. rather than the college-circuit folk of her SUNY Purchase peers. Her debut 2nd and follow-up Janky Star kept that homemade voltage while adding piano, guitar, and earworm hooks. Her 2026 album Girlfriend, co-produced with Ariel Rechtshaid and John DeBold and shaped by a recent sobriety, is her most direct record yet: less murky, harder to look away from. The question Ives keeps circling is basically the oldest one: what does it feel like to be exactly, embarrassingly yourself?
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