Grace Ives

New York-based artist Grace Ives makes compact electro-pop songs imbued with pervasive melodies, lush stacks of vocal harmonies, and lyrics that touch on both profound questions and the anxieties of daily life. After several more roughly recorded releases, Ives' songs took on heightened production values with her 2022 album Janky Star. Ives was born in New York and grew up in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn. While in college, she began making electronic music despite being part of a scene of friends and bands more involved with D.I.Y. punk- and guitar-based indie rock. Ives ofte...