In the fall of 2023, Grace Ives returned home to New York. After spending most of the previous year touring her critically acclaimed second album, Janky Star , within a matter of weeks she found herself—for lack of a better term—crashing out. In a remarkably candid letter accompanying the musician’s latest three singles—released under the tongue-in-cheek title of, well, Singles —Ives recounts the period that followed: hitting rock bottom; crying and vomiting; “drinking, lying, and hiding.” While Ives had been candid in the past about her difficult relationship with alcohol and drugs, things had reached a new low.

“It’s so crazy,” she tells me, clearly on the other side of that turbulent period. She’s sitting, fresh-faced and with cotton candy-pink hair, in the home office of her Brook

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