Grace Woodroofe Announces First Instalment Of Two-part Album ‘Rotate On The Ache’
The album features Grace Woodroofe’s new single, ‘A Love That Could Kill’.
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After sharing a string of singles last year, art pop artist Grace Woodroofe has today announced her highly anticipated sophomore album Rotate on the Ache (Part 1), the first instalment of a two-part release about love, control and survival.
Set for release Friday 1 May, the album is an autobiographical account of a toxic relationship Woodroofe experienced and how she finally refound her true self after things ended. The album features contributions from Matt Corby, Dustin Tebbutt, Lachlan Bostock and Xavier Dunn, and was produced by Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy).
“Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) unfolds like the first act of a film, tracing the early stages of an emotionally abusive relationship that begins with intoxicating devotion before slipping into manipulation and control,” Woodroofe says of the album.
“Each song captures a moment within that experience, tracing the memories, emotions and realisations that gradually reveal what’s happening beneath the surface. A slow psychological unravelling.
“The album is sequenced to mirror that experience, letting the listener move through the relationship from the inside rather than through hindsight. There’s no clarity or resolution guiding the story. It unfolds in real time.
“Rotate on the Ache explores the way painful memories repeat, circling back until they’re confronted. Making this album was a way of breaking that cycle and letting it go.”
To coincide with the announcement of Rotate On The Ache (Part 1), Woodroofe has shared the album’s fourth single, ‘A Love That Could Kill’. Following the previously released singles ‘Promise of Everything’, ‘Happy Again’ and ‘I Love You Babe’, Woodroofe’s latest serves as the penultimate track on the album and is a haunting acoustic ballad that highlights her incredible vocals.
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There aren’t too many people who can say they were discovered by the late, great Heath Ledger, but that’s exactly what happened to Grace Woodroofe. Ledger signed her to his label The Masses Music, at age 17, with Woodroofe going on to release her Ben Harper-produced debut album, Always Want, on Modular Recordings soon after.
The record peaked at #3 on the Australian iTunes Charts and provided the hit singles ‘Battles’ and ‘Transformer’, with Woodroofe soon playing festivals such as Splendour in the Grass, Bluefest and SXSW, while sharing the stage with the likes of alt-j, Cat Power, Glass Animals, Neil Finn and Paul Kelly.
Sharing her follow-up electro pop EP Love It Need It Miss It Want It in 2015 under the alias R.W. Grace, an emotionally abusive relationship resulted in Woodroofe taking several years away from the spotlight.
Refreshed and revitalised, Woodroofe is ready to share her truth with the world through her new music.
‘A Love That Could Kill’ by Grace Woodroofe is out now. Listen here. Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) is out Friday 1 May.
