Mia Wray has announced her debut album ‘hi, it’s nice to meet me’ alongside new single ‘Nice To Meet Me’.
The Melbourne-based singer-songwriter will release her first full-length record on 14th March via Mushroom Music, with the new single exploring her queer identity.
Speaking about the track, Wray explains: “This was the last song that was written. I was in the studio with G Flip and Aidan Hogg their producer. I told them the story; I was with my partner and I met this girl. She was just the cherry on top, the final realisation that something was really knocking at the door for me. I needed to answer it. I remember telling them that when I broke up with my boyfriend, we literally had a house on a hill. It was my uncle’s place in Warrandyte. We were renting it. I remember a couple of days after the break-up, I’m trying to be there for him but also, for me, being there was very upsetting as well. I remember being like, I just need to pack some bags and go, I remember kissing him for the last time — I knew it was the last time, that was very intense. There was a really long dirt road driveway in the middle of the bush; I remember seeing him in the rearview mirror, just standing outside the house on the hill.”
The twelve-track album also features previous singles ‘Tell Her’ and ‘What If’. On the album’s title, Wray shares: “It’s all a bit of a blur, the whole realising that I was probably queer. The first thing I had in my notes was that I felt like I was saying hello to myself for the first time in a really long time. ‘Hi, it’s nice to meet me’ just kept coming up in my brain as a theme. I thought it was cool and unique, I hadn’t really seen that around a lot. It felt right. It was a real slap in the face like, ‘Oh that’s who I am, that makes sense…’”
The album’s tracklist reads:
‘Nice To Meet Me’
‘Tell Her’
‘Sad But True’
‘What If’
‘The Way She Moves’
‘Only Love’
‘Fake A Smile’
‘Get Out My Way’
‘Not Enough’
‘Not The Same As Yesterday’
‘Ghost In My Machine’
‘Everybody Knows’
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