Grace Kay Breaks Character on Sophomore Album FALL FROM GRACE - 21 October 2026

Grace Kay releases her sophomore album FALL FROM GRACE available October 21st on Digital Formats via Trailing Twelve Records.

Grace Kay returns October 21 with FALL FROM GRACE, a nine-track indie-pop album that examines what happens when performing for other people slowly becomes indistinguishable from being yourself. Across five years of writing, Kay turns her experiences with romance, work, femininity, and self-image into a sharply self-aware record about losing touch with her own values and taking responsibility for finding her way back.

The album’s central tension comes from Kay’s long familiarity with performance. Having studied acting in college, she became adept at molding herself to whatever a situation demanded. That instinct followed her into relationships and professional environments, where she found herself trying to strike an impossible balance: professional but pretty, knowledgeable but kind, confident but never intimidating. “I wanted to be professional, but pretty enough to sell a product; knowledgeable, but kind; confident, but never intimidating. Essentially, I was trying to become the ‘perfect woman,’” says Kay. That tension became the starting point for a record about the distance between adaptation and authenticity.

FALL FROM GRACE is a deliberate inversion of Kay’s debut album, Grace’s Gospel. While that record explored the women and relationships that helped shape her sense of self, the new album looks inward at the ways Kay allowed her relationships with men (and her perception of how she needed to be seen by them) to become the center of her identity.

“In many ways, the music and themes explored in FALL FROM GRACE are the antithesis of Grace’s Gospel,” says Kay. “This project explores the ways my experiences with men caused me to lose touch with that authenticity, even though, ultimately, I was the one who allowed myself to walk away from it.”

That self-interrogation runs through songs that move between anxiety, romantic fixation, self-sabotage, and the pressure to conform. On “Actress,” Kay examines the roles she repeatedly plays in relationships; “Rude (the way you move)” pushes back against the expectation that women soften their anger; “What You Wanted” confronts the damage of trying to become someone else’s ideal; and “Puppet” takes the metaphor of surrendering control to its unsettling conclusion. Elsewhere, “WHY AM I LIKE THIS” turns spiraling self-criticism into something darkly funny and danceable, while closer “One Way In, One Way Through” arrives at a quieter realization: there may be no shortcut to becoming yourself again.

Final single “Tired” captures the album’s anxiety at its most immediate. Built around the repeated refrain “They must be tired of me,” the song turns the fear of being rejected into something more uncomfortable: the realization that the harshest judgment may be coming from within. Its accompanying music video, released day and date with the album, externalizes that internal spiral.

Directed by Nyiko Beguin, the video opens in an extreme close-up of Kay performing directly to camera, framed by flashing red emergency lights. As the camera slowly pulls back, the wider scene reveals people trapped in repetitive anxiety loops: checking their phones, pacing, reapplying makeup, watering dead plants, and endlessly repeating small rituals of control. As the song builds, their separate worlds begin to overlap until everything collapses into one chaotic emotional space before abruptly resetting. Eerie, campy, and faintly existential, the visual mirrors the album’s fixation on the gap between how we appear to others and what is happening underneath.

Recorded between 2023 and 2026 in Kay’s home studio in Los Angeles, FALL FROM GRACE was created with longtime partner and executive producer Austin Foley, who produced the record’s majority of tracks, alongside a handful of co-writers. The album follows Kay’s established vocal-forward indie-pop sensibility while allowing its emotional contradictions to remain intact: the music can be polished, melodic, and playful even when the subject matter is anxious, obsessive, or deeply uncomfortable.

With FALL FROM GRACE, Grace Kay is less interested in presenting a perfected version of herself than in examining the machinery that made perfection feel necessary in the first place.

FALL FROM GRACE by Grace Kay will be available worldwide on digital platforms through Los Angeles based Trailing Twelve Records. 

Watch the music video for “Tired” below.

FALL FROM GRACE Tracklist:

1. Substance
2. Actress
3. Rude (the way you move)
4. What You Wanted
5. Tired
6. WHY AM I LIKE THIS
7. Puppet
8. Sucker
9. One Way In, One Way Through

Album Credits
Written and Performed by Grace Kay
Produced by Jynjo
Mixed and Mastered by Austin Foley

Grace Korkunis - vocals, songwriting
Marielena Ramirez - additional songwriting on “Substance”
Casey Astorino - additional songwriting and production on “Actress”
Tom Rubio - additional songwriting on “What You Wanted”
Savannah Sanabia - additional songwriting on “Tired”
Kirsten Izer - additional songwriting on “WHY AM I LIKE THIS”
Thavoron Eang - additional songwriting and production on “Sucker”

“Tired” Music Video Credits
Directed by Nyiko Beguin
Edited by Sabrina Gimenez
Produced by Grace Kay
Director of Photography: Milo Mitchell
Colorist: Yvonne Gonzalez
Talent: Grace Kay, Kirsten Spruch, Mari Ramirez, Austin Foley, Miya Kodama

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Release Date: 21 October 2026
Release Title: FALL FROM GRACE
Artist: Grace Kay

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BIO

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Grace Kay is an indie-pop artist whose music explores identity, relationships, femininity, and the uneasy space between who we are and who we perform ourselves to be. A graduate of USC’s acting program, Kay brings a deep understanding of character and storytelling to her songwriting, turning the roles she’s played in relationships and professional environments into sharp, self-aware pop.

Her sound pairs refined, punchy synth-pop production with syncopated rhythms and lush vocal textures, blending emotional vulnerability with a playful, often darkly funny edge. Her music has earned coverage from The Guardian, LADYGUNN, Galore, METAL, Under the Radar, Atwood, Ones To Watch, and KCRW, with official Spotify playlist placements on Fresh Finds and Fresh Finds: Pop and syncs on ABC’s A Million Little Things, CBS’s True Lies, and MTV’s West Coast Hustle.

Following her debut album Grace’s Gospel, an exploration of the women and relationships that shaped her, Kay’s sophomore album FALL FROM GRACE turns the lens inward. Written over five years, the nine-track record examines romance, work, femininity, self-image, and the pressure to become the “perfect woman.” Rather than simply blaming the people or environments around her, Kay interrogates her own role in losing touch with her values, asking where adaptation ends and authenticity begins.

PRESS & FEATURES

2025 Artist to Watch via LADYGUNN and Sweety High

“Kay is already well on her way to conquering the electropop world with the upbeat syncopation of her previous singles “play” and “fool” (plus one hell of a slowed and contemplative take on ABBA’s “Dancing Queen”). With “Here,” she trades the playful tones and club-ready production for hazy, nostalgic soundscapes reminiscent of M83 at their deepest rearview-gazing.” - Atwood Magazine

“Kay balances the dancefloor ready gloss with a sincere emotive core, offering words of gentle encouragement with warm lyricism and poetic imagery.” - Under the Radar

“Between enlightened metaphors and a glowing delivery, "renaissance" pushes listeners to adopt even a touch of the idealism that the rising artist displays so confidently.” - Sheesh