We Can’t ‘Let Go’ Of How Excited We Are For Grayscale’s New Album The Hart

We think the title speaks for itself because really all we’re thinking right now is just *long period of incoherent screaming.* That is to say, we’re really, really, REALLY excited about Grayscale‘s upcoming album The Hart. Is it January yet? That’s right folks, The Hart drops January 31st, 2025, so us shamrock band fans have quite a wait to go before we get to hear the new tracks. Our “harts” simply can’t take it…. Anyway, not to fear though, because Grayscale also dropped their new single ‘Let Go!’

Okay, a bit of a caveat first. Technically, ‘Let Go’ isn’t that new. Grayscale has been playing this song live ever since their 2023 holiday show back in December. So we have heard the song a few times already. While we love hearing it live, the recorded version absolutely blew us away.

‘Let Go’

We got a music video too, so we’re feeling pretty spoiled right now. Speaking of, we’re loving all of the Grayscale music videos from this new era so far. (‘Summer Clothes‘ is obviously a favorite of ours) We love the simplicity of the mv’s visuals because it lets the real intensity of the song come through.

‘Let Go’ is not shy in its narrative:

Patience
You’ve been testing my patience
Baiting me to just cave in
Pushing me until I choke
And I hate it
Hate the picture you’re painting
Hate the way you’re so tasteless
Holding onto your rope

We’ve loved these lyrics since the first time we heard them. And of course, we love the expressiveness of this song when it’s performed live and in the music video. Another one of our favorite parts of this recorded version of ‘Let Go’ is the piano that comes in towards the end of the track. It’s a soft break to the intensity of the track that builds up for the final chorus and we can’t get enough. The production of this song is simply everything. We also recommend taking a peek at the description of the video because you might see a familiar name in the editor’s spot.

We’re ready for The Hart to rip our hearts out. If you think we’re being dramatic (we’re definitely not), just take a look at what the band had to say about the album. It’s worth the read:

Our 4th album, The Hart, will be released January 31st 2025. This is the longest amount of time we’ve ever taken between records, and it’s the longest amount of time we’ve ever spent working on a single album. In that time, we’ve experienced quite a lot. Not only as individuals, but also as friends – a collective unit. Addictions, deaths, losing our religion, finding it again, and pulling each other out of (and sometimes through) all the grief that came along with it. It was the most painful period of our lives as humans, and yet it is the closest we’ve ever been. Things change as you grow older, but at the same time they kind of don’t change at all. We’ve known each other for most of our lives at this point, and have been able to count on each other no matter what since the day we met. But this is not a record about nostalgia. It’s about growth, facing the very real and difficult parts of life, dealing with pain, and overcoming it all spiritually, mentally, emotionally, and physically. It is about healing. It is a collection of real life stories, through real life events. Through all of this, our hunger to find the best version of our band went deeper than it ever has. We’d grown bored and uninspired to the majority of music that was coming out. Everything sounded the same. Even to ourselves, everything we had been writing all started to sound the same. So we stripped it all down the studs. Back to the same basement we wrote songs in when we were 14. We reminded ourselves of why we fell in love with music as kids. The art and the craft of it. The struggle and the reward of it. The way we could speak to one another and connect in a room through it without words. We channeled all of the personal pain we were experiencing into that room with the sole purpose of making the most authentic, genuine, and vulnerable art that we could make. Writing about who we are and what we’ve been through. We were going to name this record, “The Heart.” It felt like a more meaningful name than the record being self-titled, but still holding the same sentiment. “Hart,” though, is the maiden name of one of our grandmothers. It’s a name that was carried by a strong Irish catholic woman, someone who represented who we are and how we grew up. Someone who loved to laugh and loved to fight. Someone who was truly herself. Someone from the same bloodline. After all, this record was quite literally made through blood, sweat, and tears with each other. Heart is being there at a moment’s notice when your friend’s parent is dying. Heart is “I hate you right now but I’m not going anywhere because I love you”. It’s the real love. The deep kind that you only get to share with a small handful of people in a lifetime. We’re lucky we have it with each other. We’re lucky we have you all too. 

We are so unbelievably excited to hear what Grayscale has in store with The Hart. It seems like it’s going to be full of vulnerable and raw lyricism that gets you…well straight in the heart. (We’re really trying to keep the puns to a minimum, guys we swear) In all seriousness, Grayscale excels when it comes to emotional vulnerability and lyricism (see: Nella Vita‘s whole tracklist) and those songs are some of our favorites, even if they can be painful. We have absolutely no doubts that The Hart is going to deliver the same authenticity and emotion while staying true to who Grayscale is at their core and we’re simply counting down the days until January 31st.

While you’re counting down the days with us, be sure to stream ‘Let Go’ and don’t forget to pre-order the album.

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