Bigger Than Me / Readymade (Duology One)

Human / Passion (Duology Two)

All of Gretta Ray's releases in one playlist!

Gretta Ray Complete Playlist

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From You To Me

mess we made

Written by
Lil Friedmann
Jacinta Le
Craig Kemp

Mixed by
Craig Kemp
Luke Mullan

Mastered by
Luke Mullan

mess we made

When The World Stopped Moving: The Live EP

Let Light Be Light

Human

Cherish / The Brink (Duology Three)

The Brink

Begin To Look Around

Worldly-wise

Cherish

Happenstance

Love Me Right / Learning You (Duology Four)

Love Me Right

I wrote The Walls Are Way Too Thin about a time in my life where I felt like i’d lost control of where I was heading and struggling a little with finding my place in the world. It was a very strange period, I’d just moved to London away from my family and all of a sudden everything that I knew to be normal had changed completely. I moved on a whim into this little dingy room. I met some cool people but this place was pretty lonely and claustrophobic. I’m such an awkward person and even though I really liked my housemates I still felt worried about small talk in the kitchen or passing each other in the corridors. I had some fun times there, but I felt like I was mostly confined to my room whilst chaos was going on in the flats or streets around us. To avoid confronting how I was feeling I’d sneak out of the flat and go on train journeys to see my mates, get drunk, then come back hungover through the night or morning. I wrote most of Walls and the songs that come next on those trains. It was my place of therapy, in the middle of nowhere.

I wanted the music video to reflect how I felt stuck in my room with my own internal anxiety rising. The idea of being trapped in an air vent in a burning building came from that feeling of claustrophobia and panic that I felt throughout my time living in the flat. Shooting the video was chaotic, my elbows and knees look quite different now after 8 hours of crawling back and forth. The fire blast in the vent was totally real too !!

The Walls Are Way Too Thin

The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows

The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows (triple j Like A Version)

Vienna

Dear Seventeen

Heartbreak Baby

Positive Spin

You've Already Won

Can't Keep It Casual

Nobody Here

Don't Date The Teenager

Light On

Loving Somebody

The Cool Boy

Upgraded

America Forever (with Maisie Peters & Carol Ades)

Don’t Date The Teenager

Positive Spin +

Roses

Heartbreak Baby (Acoustic)

Upgraded (Reimagined)

Drive

Radio Silence

Forever Isn't Long Enough

Passion

Play God

Readymade

Bigger Than Me

Australia's most thrilling and revealing new pop artist Gretta Ray releases her debut album ‘Begin To Look Around’, alongside focus single ‘Love Me Right’. “One of the larger lessons that I learned when writing my album was to stop over-compromising when trying desperately to make a relationship work. Love Me Right is the moment I realised that I deserved better” says Gretta. 

A wonderous and empowering coming of age record, ‘Begin To Look Around’ chronicles the journey of a young artist navigating the winding lanes of womanhood, romance, heartbreak, travel and friendship. It is a bold, layered, colourful pop album made over 2019-20 in Melbourne, Sydney and Gretta’s adopted home of London with a stellar array of writer-producers working at the vanguard of modern pop. A thoughtful, crafted, hairbrush-singable body of work that celebrates the bravery and trust of laying bare the bones of your life with fellow creatives and the thrill of new paths — with killer hooks at every turn.

At just 18, Gretta famously won Triple J Unearthed High and the prestigious Vanda & Young Songwriting Award for her high-rotation hit, Drive. Two EPs, Elsewhere (2016) and Here and Now (2018) have taken her from Falls and Splendour to her first shows in the UK and USA opening for artists such as Mumford & Sons, Gang of Youths, Lianne La Havas and James Bay. Now, at 23, her story truly begins.

Gretta Ray

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