Saya Gray - SAYA

On her second album SAYA, the Japanese-Canadian musician’s magpie art pop coheres into something like a traditional breakup record, but her perspective and production are far from conventional. Includes the singles "Shell (Of A Man" and "Lie Down".

Since her first project release, the critically-acclaimed 19 MASTERS in 2022, 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.

This vinyl edition produced by Dirty Hit Records in 2025.

TRACKLISTING:

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..