If you caught one of Grace Woodroofe’s recent sets supporting Ben Harper, you probably want to know more about her. And if you didn’t, you’re going to wish you had after hearing her new single “Beginning.”
While its title suggests this is the start of Grace’s career, it’s more of a rebirth. This is her first single in eight years, a welcome return to the music scene. With stunning simplicity it explores the beginning of the end of an abusive relationship, those moments when the love is still so powerful and palpable that it helps you overlook the deep flaws.
“I had written many resentment songs when I first began the process of writing this album. They were the easiest to write about and sit with. When I sat down to write ‘Beginning’, I knew it was time to depict the stages that came before the anger,” Grace explained. “The bargaining, denial and desperation I had to keep things going was an important phase in the story, and a key part in grief. Holding onto key memories, moments and feelings, in order to divert the pain.”
With a new album in the works, we should hear a lot more from Grace in 2023.
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