Review Summary: EP of the Year (OFFICIAL)
QWERTY is a statement: a
don’t believe me just watch circa
hold my beer circa
are you going to eat the last crabcake proclamation of big future intentions and fun present things. Picking up the indie-folk-but-really-not bones of 2022’s exceptional
19 Masters, which was apparently just a warm up, Gray decides to throw out her already spindly rulebook in favour of doing all of the very cool things with pop music on this EP (because). There’s a classically-inspired glitchy-breaks meets piano-recital opening trio that demands your attention literally now for god’s sake go NOW shoo and also then other songs are here too some with, uh, metal undertones (lol) and others with actually ascertainable folk roots until the BASS hits with a WARBLE and a BOING and a FUK. all CAPS quotable lyrics are abundant, too, you’ll be pleased to hear, w/ chameleonic///warm delivery delivered for free. Atop butter production and immaculately consistent purple-green v i b e z, you will find the above things, and more(!): wrinkle-free melancholy, hands in air (waiving) in D minor, smile and cry instruction manual, and phew (big) lots of them. Do not let this mangled pile of overly excited non-sentences mislead you:
QWERTY is
such an
easy listen
holy heck, breathtakingly so, actually, given all the varied things in play. The
playfulness is the key, I think:
QWERTY is sung with a smile. Each curveball comes with a nod and a wink. It knows it is a bit silly and wants you to be a bit silly with it. Oblige.
