“Lemonade was born out of my hot-and-cold relationship with romance and intimacy. I felt weak relying on validation because it was the closest thing to love I could find—classic uni experience.”

“This record is different. My previous albums reported on experiences I had already processed. Here, I’m writing from inside a process that’s ongoing — my struggle with cycles of addiction and co-dependency, something I may never fully emerge from.”

“It’s about being emotionally and physically depleted, questioning everything. You’re not okay, but you’re not giving up either. The first verse walks through a kind of spiritual confusion — lighting candles, seeking answers, then flipping into an atheist mindset. It’s about that limbo.”

“This song is about the loss of communication in relationships—particularly family ties. In the Western world, these bonds often exist by default, even when the reality is cold disconnection. There’s this invisible expectation to love and know each other, even as that bond fades into nothingness.”

“I wrote [Fight Back] to feel like a five-minute panic attack, a reflection of doing it scared, even when you feel inadequate.”

“It’s a high-energy ode to what we want young people to feel. Even in a state of despair, you can still rise up and fight—if you’re willing to throw yourself to the unknown.”

Pop singer-songwriter Rachel Grae returns with her latest single, Safe With Me. The track explores the emotional toll of people-pleasing, capturing the struggle of sacrificing oneself for the sake of others.

“As wxmen, we’re taught to carry shame for things that are simply human—desire, detachment, choosing ourselves. These songs are about normalizing those experiences and letting go of that inner guilt. They hold space for that emotional complexity and say, ‘It’s okay—you’re allowed to feel this.’”

“I wrote ‘Dead End’ when I was sleeping with my ex and hoping for different results. But I knew we’d hit the end of the road. I always stay too long and get more hurt—don’t do what I do!”

Bassist Ciara King describes the track as “an ode to every single burnout episode that any creative has ever had. It’s important to break the fourth wall sometimes and say, ‘this is really hard, isn’t it? You can be exhausted and still love your craft. This one goes out to all our burnt out pals. Keep going.”

“It’s for my friends who carried me. It’s about being accepted as queer, non-binary, and neurodivergent — and loving without judgment.”

“‘sportscar’ is an interesting addition to the deluxe because spittake almost had a different identity. At one point, I considered naming the album Check Engine Light On. I didn’t realize how central the theme of cars was until after writing it.”

“This is the most emotional project I’ve ever made. It holds my new grief, my longing, and all the tiny moments that pulled me through.”

Described as a love letter never sent, Call Me is raw and intimate, built on airy vocals and minimal, dreamy production. Anchored by the haunting line, “maybe someday I’ll love and he won’t have your face,” the song captures the ache of lingering love and the quiet hope of moving on.

“I wrote it when I felt completely consumed by online pressures. There’s this constant stream of new insecurities being invented — it’s dark, but I wanted to reflect that in a tongue-in-cheek way people could connect with.”

“It had been so long since I’d felt that way. I romanticised everything — which I think is necessary to cope with the distance. We’re in different countries, speaking different languages, but we still share this bond.”

“I didn’t intend for something so intimate to become a song, but songs have a funny way of finding you and giving you language for the things you didn’t know you needed to name.”

“It’s about that moment when you’re not sure if your crush feels the same. You want to leave the party, but then they arrive, and suddenly you could stay all night.”

"These acoustic versions were the last three things I recorded on my Fostex 4-track tape machine before the transport broke irreparably. We put them on the Japanese release of my album You Are the Morning as bonus tracks. We were originally gonna use the actual demos that got me signed by Phoebe, but my voice has changed a lot since then and I wanted to redo them but in exactly the same way”