Saya Gray | (demo Mixtape) | Vinyl LP - Albums of the Year

Demo mixtape of new music created around the SAYA era, available exclusively on vinyl at Rough Trade. Gray began work on SAYA following the dissolution of a troubled romantic entanglement; she booked a flight to Japan in Autumn of 2023, and like a feel-good movie protagonist, 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\u2019s 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.