ROSE GRAY
CONDIVIDE IL SINGOLO
“ECSTASY”
HOTTEST RECORD IN THE WORLD SU BBC RADIO 1
E IL NUOVO EP
HIGHER THAN THE SUN
Photo Credit: Freddie Stisted
Rose Gray clashes rave’s wide-eyed optimism against darkly trickling trance and techno, and crackles with the promise of making body-to-body contact”
– The Guardian
“We reckon Rose Gray could single handedly revive Brit Pop for another generation”
– i-D
“escapist rave thrills… an artist finely attuned to hedonistic joy”
– The FADER
“a knockout”
– Billboard
“Rose lifts above all the noise and makes clear she has no intention conforming to the standard popstar mould”
– NME
“Impressively powerful”
– DIY
“Rose is here to stay, and here to shake up music as we hear it today”
– Notion
One of the UK’s most exciting rising stars and dance-pop icon in waiting Rose Gray has shared her brand new single ‘Ecstasy’, which premiered last night as Clara Amfo’s Hottest Record in the World on BBC Radio 1, in celebration of her new EP Higher Than The Sun also out today. Featuring ‘Ecstsasy’ as well as previous singles ‘Sun Comes Up’, ‘Promise Me’ and FIFA 2023 soundtrack song ‘Prettier Than You’, the EP features production collaborations with Alex Metric, Ghostculture, Frank Colucci and Nick Godmode, and continues Rose’s upward streak creating some of the UK’s best dance-pop in recent memory. She describes Higher Than The Sun as “the big sister to my previous EP Synchronicity, only maybe a little more fun. I wrote this EP over summer 2022 – I think the London heatwave, festivals, and nightlife blossoming has something to do with this EP feeling so free and intoxicating. There’s rave, disco and techno pulsating through Higher Than The Sun”.
Higher Than The Sun follows Rose’s acclaimed summer EP Synchronicity, which featured previous singles ‘Last Song’, which premiered on Clara Amfo’s show on BBC Radio 1, title track ‘Synchronicity’, which received its premiere on The FADER, and Clara Amfo’s Hottest Record in the World ‘Cupid’. Rose is signed to Play It Again Sam, home to Lykke Li, Anna of the North and Soulwax, and recently was signed to Facet Records and Publishing by Justin Tranter (songwriter on Dua Lipa’s Future Nostalgia, Lady Gaga’s Chromatica, and Selena Gomez’s Rare). Late last year, Rose supported shygirl at Printworks, performing some of the tracks from Higher Than The Sun for the first time.
Speaking about new track ‘Ecstasy’, which is Rose’s biggest floorfiller yet, she explains “‘Ecstasy’ is a club banger moment for me. Much like most of my favourite 90’s dance records there’s just this explosion, pure ecstasy, pure anthemic ravey bliss. I played this at Printworks supporting Shygirl and just from how the crowd reacted, I knew I had to lead the EP with this as a single. I wrote it with frequent collaborator Alex Metric, in the studio I became obsessed with the lyric ‘Higher Than The Sun’, it was written in under an hour and felt just so right from the offset. It’s a club record. It undeniably makes you want to dance.“
The track is released today alongside a sci-fi chic video, starring Rose and directed by Rauri Cantelo. “We wanted it to feel like a 1990’s meets 1960’s sci-fi,” explains Rose. “I was never very good at science at school, but put me in a Gucci lab coat and it seems I’m able to clone myself into hundreds of Roses.” Director Rauri says, “It’s essentially mad scientist meets uncanny valley, and what better way to show that than by having Rose conduct atom-altering experiments on herself.”
Listen to ‘Ecstasy’ here
Watch ‘Ecstasy’ here
Stream Higher Than The Sun here
Photographer: Samuel Ibram / VFX: Thomas Harrington-Rawle
Rose Gray made a huge splash with her debut mixtape dancing, drinking, talking, thinking, which included Clara Amfo’s BBC Radio 1 Tune of The Week ‘Save Your Tears’, as well as Rose’s cover of Saint Etienne’s ‘Nothing Can Stop Us’, and her breakout single ‘Same Cloud’. Drawing attention from the likes of NME, i-D, DIY, Billboard, Wonderland, and Notion, as well as Clara and Annie Mac at BBC Radio 1, and BBC Introducing, dancing, drinking, talking, thinking was a true statement of intent from a big new voice in British pop. Since then, Rose has released Synchronicity, which won more attention from The Face, The FADER, The Guardian and more.
Born and raised in East London, Walthamstow, the city has always been the singer-songwriter’s playground: warehouse parties in secret locations, the suspended reality of the late-night underground and the first glimpse of sunrise in the small hours are woven into the fabric of Rose Gray’s sound. Originally drawn to big popstars with big voices such as Christina Aguilera, Rose has now created her own sonic landscape – a hedonistic, intoxicating blend of house, pop and dance that feels entirely unique, and totally irresistible. Keep your eyes peeled for more from Rose this year.