Grace Woodroofe Releases New Album ‘Rotate On The Ache (Part 1)’
The album features the previously released singles ‘A Love That Could Kill’, ‘Promises of Everything’, ‘Happy Again’ and ‘I Love You Babe’.
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After a longer-than-expected hiatus, Grace Woodroofe returns today with her highly anticipated sophomore album Rotate on the Ache (Part 1), the first instalment of a two-part release about love, control and survival.
Channelling indie pop soundscapes, the record is an honest and, at times, heartbreaking story of an emotionally abusive relationship Woodroofe experienced. Across 10 tracks she tells her truth, and although there isn’t a clear resolution, the story is set to continue with future release Part 2.
Brought to life with some of Australia’s finest collaborators - Matt Corby, Dustin Tebbutt, Lachlan Bostock and Xavier Dunn - and produced by Oscar Dawson (Holy Holy), Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) is a captivating and intimate release.
“What emerges is not only a story of heartbreak, but of clarity, resilience and the quiet, hard-won act of finding your way back to yourself,” says Woodroofe. “The album is sequenced to mirror the 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.
“Part 1 doesn’t end with closure or escape. It ends in waiting, bargaining, desperation. Because that’s where I was for a long time. So you’re left there, still in it. Part 2 marks the return to myself, but not before it gets darker.”
The album features the previously released singles ‘A Love That Could Kill’, ‘Promises of Everything’, ‘Happy Again’ and ‘I Love You Babe’, along with the focus track ‘Control My Universe’, a '60s-inspired pop song co-written with Matt Corby.
Grave Woodroofe’s career got off to an auspicious start when she was discovered by Heath Ledger as a teenager. Signed to his label The Masses Music at age 17, Woodroofe released her Ben Harper-produced debut album, Always Want, on Modular Recordings soon after.
Peaking at #3 on the Australian iTunes Charts and spawning the hit singles ‘Battles’ and ‘Transformer’, Woodroofe soon found herself performing at massive festivals such as Splendour in the Grass, Bluefest and SXSW, while also 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.
Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) by Grace Woodroofe is out now. Listen here. Check out the album artwork and tracklist below.
Rotate on the Ache (Part 1)
1. Die For Love (Prologue)
2. Promise of Everything
3. I Love You Babe
4. Saved
5. Happy Again
6. Say You Will
7. Control My Universe
8. Humming Numbness
9. A Love That Could Kill
10. I Keep Waiting
