Rising star Hannah Grae is back with her latest releases ‘New Temptation’ and ‘Aeroplane’.
Having been hailed as an artist to watch by NME, Rolling Stone UK, NME, Dork and The Independent. We all might remember her as the one who captivated audiences with her rewrites of popular songs and covers from her garden shed - resulting in an impressive 145k subscribers to her YouTube channel and 272k followers on TikTok. Hannah’s self-taught musical education seats her firmly in the lineage of cross-genre women making musical waves.
Having released her first single in 2022, you could always tell she was going places, having released her first EP ‘Hell is A Teenage Girl’ last year, she already has an impressive live catalogue having impressed crowds across the UK and Europe with performances at Glastonbury, 2000Trees Festival, The Great Escape, Neighbourhood Weekender, Liverpool Sound City, Standon Calling Festival, Bingley Festival, Rock En Seine (Paris), Sziget Festival (Budapest), Mad Cool Festival (Madrid) and All Points East to name a few.
Having released two new tracks ‘New Temptation’ and ‘Aeroplane Jelly’ just a mere two days after her first-ever headline show at The Grace in London which sold out. ‘New Temptation’ - a personal favourite of mine - is stunning, that beat and bassline take you into a completely different dimension.
With incredibly sophisticated lyrics taking you on a journey of a concept of doing things we probably shouldn’t have done and people you probably shouldn’t have met - something we can all relate to as Hannah puts it,
“It initially started with the concept of choosing a path that was so different to what I initially thought I would choose. The concept became way deeper, and I started to compare myself to Alice from Alice in Wonderland. I got curious and followed a path that led me to do things I maybe shouldn’t have done and led me to people I maybe shouldn’t have met. I loved the visual reference of the movie and took that into my writing.”
“Aeroplane Jelly” is no different, when you originally start listening to it, it sounds like it’s going to be a slow ballad, but don’t let that fool you, 30 seconds in and you get a beautiful guitar solo before you’re catapulted into the heavy hitting punk rock sound we all know and love, reminiscent to Courtney Love and Green Day. It’s a song you can’t help but scream the lyrics and dance around to, it’s a song you can listen to even when you’re in a bad mood and it’ll without fail cheer you up, it’s freeing!
As Hannah says
“Aeroplane Jelly’ is such a ridiculous song, and I loved the freedom that I felt when writing it. It basically looks back on my younger, naive self and almost mocks my oblivion. It’s all done through a character, in my mind an aeroplane, that feels so good and loved when it flies but no one is there to pick up the pieces when it falls.”
‘New Temptation’ and ‘Aeroplane Jelly’ are out now and are available on all major streaming platforms. Trust me you don’t want to miss it.
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Article By Jenn Foster
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