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Turn To Something You Know

by Jack Grace

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Lavinie Cloutier C'est vraiment bon! J'aime beaucoup cet album! Ça me fait du bien de l'écouter. On sent l'évolution de l'artiste grâce a son voyage. J'ai longtemps été nomade à cause de mon métier en exploration minière. Toujours dans le milieu de nul part avec son sac à dos. Je retrouve un peu, avec cet album, ce sentiment de nostalgie d'avoir perdu de vu plein de gens extraordinaires croisés au cours de ma carrière. Favorite track: Redemption.
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Daydreaming 03:51
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Miles Away 03:32
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The Pavement 04:41
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A Ribbon 02:41
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Leaving 03:14
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Sailing 03:05
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In The Aisle 03:04
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Adds Up 03:09
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Happier 03:10

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‘Turn To Something You Know’ was created with deep rooted inspiration combining with a new and refreshed context.

“I fell in love and moved to France, around the end of my first year here I had a moment where I realised I had inadvertently ripped the rug out from under my identity,” Grace recalls. “I went about trying to rebuild it and I made this record while I did that.”

The album’s front half features Jack Grace’s vocals at the forefront. Looped drum patterns, gloomy melodies and organic instrumentation sets the record’s sonic tone, one fuelled by melancholy. This sonic sentiment is evidenced most by the album's opener, ‘It’s a Vision’. Moody acoustic guitar lines combine with Grace’s raspy vocal, painting a vivid self portrait of the forthcoming narratives explored on the record. Following the opener is ‘Redemption’. The track delves deep into a sonic sphere of sentimental musicianship, one that packages melancholy with hints of pop, soul and indie wrapped brilliantly with a nostalgic exterior.

The record's latter half kicks off with stark imagery via , ‘Leaving’. The ballad cut strips back the instrumentation of the preceding tracks, turning the nostalgia from ‘A Ribbon’ to a desolate yet beautiful intimate space. It’s from this point the tracklist turns, melancholy transitions to optimism and hope. From the strings in ‘In The Aisle’ the R&B feel in ‘Adds Up’ and the grandiose closer, ‘Happier’, Jack Grace flexes his songwriting and production abilities. In them, he takes control not only of his emotions but his artistic direction, solidifying his transition from producer to all encompassing artist and songwriter.

Classic songwriting is inspired by life experience through the lens of growing up in small towns and outer suburbs, and his own experience of moving from the vast rural landscapes of Australia to the cultural metropolis of Paris, losing and ultimately rediscovering a sense of self.

It’s on this album that Grace manifests his experiences into a solely unique sound. The classically trained pianist cites a melting pot of influences, from American songwriting greats Dylan, Springsteen and mavericks like David Byrne and Arthur Russell to early ‘00s post-rock and slow-core band Low via the electronic experimentalism of Massive Attack and Portishead and, more recently, Oneohtrix Point Never.

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released July 2, 2021

Written by Jack Britten
Production by Jack Britten & Hamish Mitchell
Mixing by Hamish Mitchell
Mastered by Simon Lam

Artwork by 9Point

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Jack Grace Sydney, Australia

The journey for the singer-songwriter, musician and producer started in the suburbs of Newcastle (NSW) obsessing over piano, making demos and listening to mixes of Silver Chair, Dylan and Ray Charles.

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