“With this album, my default position was to do everything differently,” Gray says in a press release about the album and accompanying tour. “I didn’t think ‘this would be a good hook’ or ‘these lyrics could work for a chorus.’ I was keen to get away from narrative. Instead of writing melodies, I looked for phrases with a natural cadence, so that the rhythm began with the words. I reimagined where a song might spring from and what form it could take.”
Tickets will be available for pre-sale on Monday, and a general on-sale begins at 10 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 9.
This article appears in Oct 31 – Nov 6, 2018.
