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- Summary: The debut full-length studio release from Canadian alt-pop singer-songwriter Saya Gray came after a trip to Japan and was influenced by the music of such artists as Joni Mitchel, Led Zeppelin and The Beatles.
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- Record Label: Dirty Hit
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Singer/Songwriter
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Feb 24, 2025The result is expansive, yet so much of this album remains adrift. There’s power in that, in how something so sonically separate and restless can exist with so much confidence and humanity.
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Feb 28, 2025Saya Gray’s newfound streamlined approach comes at little cost to her oddball M.O.. She is remarkable for how she irons out what would once have been a lone idiosyncratic contour into the basis for a full track, stuffing verse/chorus structures with ideas so prickly that it’s a wonder to hear them sit so naturally in a conventional framework.
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Feb 24, 2025A vivid and vulnerable album, brimming with emotional depth, occupying its own distinct lane.
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Feb 24, 2025This is a record born at the wheel, weaving through a dramatic sonic and thematic landscape, with Gray’s delicate vocals guiding the listener with care. Though this is only her debut album, Gray has already built a world we feel lucky to be let into — and she’s a protagonist worth rooting for.
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Feb 24, 2025Saya is more of a restoration: filling in the cracks of Gray’s music, redrawing her in bolder shades and more vivid hues—indigo, flesh tone, spring green.
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Feb 24, 2025The more traditional songs here – Puddle and How Long Can You Keep Up a Lie in particular – place Gray in a lineage of sharp-tongued romantics, though their effect is blunted some by self-consciously “experimental” passages. .... But elsewhere on Saya, Gray has the makings of a true original.