"'Follow the Cyborg' gestures to a liberated future beyond binaries, and while its concept isn’t particularly new, its theatrical vision is striking.” — Pitchfork
"Miss Grit’s ability to bring a raw and cerebral sensibility to electronic pop music has grown exponentially." — The FADER
"'Follow the Cyborg' boasts the energy of an unbridled dance track (the percussion was provided by Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa) with breathy bits of saxophone and Sohn’s expertly crafted guitar tones.” — Rolling Stone
Today Miss Grit — the New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn (they/she) — has shared new track “Nothing’s Wrong” from their forthcoming self-produced debut album, Follow the Cyborg, out February 24th on Mute.
Listen to the quiet euphoria of “Nothing’s Wrong” here: https://youtu.be/QOC3TGOrydMAcross Follow the Cyborg, Miss Grit pursues the path of a non-human machine, as it moves from its helpless origin to awareness and liberation. At times gentle and sparse, at others volatile and explosive, Follow the Cyborg occupies a sonic world of electronic experimentation and stirring electric guitars. It was recorded mostly in solitude in Sohn’s home studio, with the exception of a few guest collaborators joining: Stella Mozgawa of Warpaint, Aron Kobayashi Ritch of Momma, and Pearla.
Miss Grit’s impetus to conceive an album about the life of a cyborg stems from their own connection to this way of existing. As a mixed-race, non-binary artist, Sohn has always rejected the limits of identity thrust upon them by the outside world, instead favoring an embrace of a more fluid and complex understanding of the self. Hailed by Rolling Stone as an “inventive, incisive singer-songwriter,” their process is introspective, their vision precise. In Follow the Cyborg, Sohn subtly and overtly refer to films, including Her, Ex Machina, and Ghost in the Shell, plus essays by Jia Tolentino (from Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion) and Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto.
“Lain (Phone Clone)” follows the “beguiling and elastic” (Stereogum) single “Like You,” with its precise, slowly building electric guitars and bold basslines performed by Zoltan Sindhu, as well as the title-track “Follow the Cyborg,” praised by Pitchfork for its “adrenaline high” and “electronic dissonance.”
Watch the “Follow the Cyborg” Video
Watch the “Like You” Lyric Video
Watch The “Lain (Phone Clone)” Video
Pre-order Follow the Cyborg
This month Miss Grit will perform a pair of album release shows in New York and Los Angeles. They are also slated to perform at SXSW in March, with further showcase details to come soon. Tickets are on sale now.
Miss Grit Tour Dates
Wed. Feb. 22 - New York, NY @ Baby’s All Right
Fri. Feb. 24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Moroccan Lounge
Follow the Cyborg Tracklist:
1. Perfect Blue
2. Your Eyes Are Mine
3. Nothing's Wrong
4. Lain (phone clone)
5. Buffering
6. Follow the Cyborg
7. 사이보그를 따라와
8. Like You
9. The End
10. Syncing
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