SAYA

Hold up, Saya Gray is strange and incredible. This Japanese-Canadian singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist has emerged from somewhere unholy and fabulous, hinting at brilliance with her debut release 19 Masters on Dirty Hit in 2022, and set to tear our skin off with new album SAYA. Twisted pop, fucked up folk, and real danger on the dance floor, these are a few of our favourite things, and Saya Gray's new one has them all - and more. - Flying Out

Endlessly talented sonic nonconformist Saya Gray reveals plans for her debut album SAYA, set for release on February 21, 2025 via Dirty Hit.

Since her first project release, the critically-acclaimed 19 MASTERS, only a couple years ago, Saya Gray has become globally defined by the undefinable – an artist whose work is limitless, beguiling, intimate, exhilarating and truly unlike any other musician releasing songs right now. It’s easy to call something “one of one;” it’s harder to live it, breathe it, encapsulate it, and share it with the world: Saya Gray embodies that rarified space and invites everyone in. SAYA finally came after the dissolution of a troubled romantic entanglement; Gray booked a flight to Japan in the fall of 2023. And like a feel-good movie protagonist, Gray detangled herself from the outstanding psychic ties by journeying solo on a cross-country road trip.

Moved by the vastness of albums by the Beatles and Led Zeppelin, as well as her Canadian folk forebear, Joni Mitchell, Gray kept an acoustic guitar in the passenger’s seat, just in case inspiration would strike. In recording SAYA, Gray sanded and fine tuned the rough edges of records past into more cohesive works of melodic folk songcraft.

Tracklist:

1.  ..THUS IS WHY ( I DON’T SPRING 4 LOVE )
2. SHELL ( OF A MAN )
3. LINE BACK 22
4. PUDDLE ( OF ME )
5. HOW LONG CAN YOU KEEP UP A LIE?
6. CATS CRADLE!
7. 10 WAYS ( TO LOSE A CROWN )
8. H.B.W
9. EXHAUST THE TOPIC
10. LIE DOWN..