Grace Gillespie is a London-based artist and producer originally from Devon, who started out as part of the live line-up for 4AD’s Pixx. Her sound takes influences from the folk, psych, and dream-pop traditions, providing a backdrop to her intriguing vocal melodies, shifting harmonies, and introspective lyricism.
Gillespie is back with yet another prepossessing song on her new single, “All The Yellow Flowers”. Gillespie’s affinity for sensitive inflection of poetry is ever sturdy as she cuts over a gentle stream of acoustic guitar musing. The final single released before her debut forthcoming LP, “All The Yellow Flowers” is a spacious effort recalling the dramatic flair of Laura Marling.
“This song is about trying to look after myself and be accepting of my human state, as it is, in the present. It’s very much a conversation with myself: my luck is out, but I have my body; my words are gone, but that is okay, they were always meant to come and go. I live in the past a lot and am terrible at looking to the future: hopes, dreams, plans – I can’t let them exist in case things don’t work out. This nostalgia takes over in the second verse and engulfs my attempt to hold my own in the present. I wanted to create a feeling that these swimming memories always return and are so much stronger and more vivid than the present,” says Gillespie.
“All the Yellow Flowers are symbolic of all that is new and young and natural, all that lives wholly in the present and shines all the more for it. Next to them, I felt like death by small degrees, a heavy body, a sinking ship of nostalgia and fear.”
