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Today, multifaceted talent Grace Annabella Anderson has released her highly anticipated debut album Art, Baby. It unfolds across thirteen full-feeling tracks shimmering with poetic lyricism, confessional storytelling, and emotional reckoning. Produced at The Planetarium in Nashville, TN with Thomas Dulin, this record explores themes of nostalgia, disillusionment, and desire
“Art, Baby is for the perpetual muses reclaiming their singular voice and own artistry. It is yearning, losing yourself in another, and still remaining soft and full of life on the other side of it all. There’s a beautiful power in being a romantic, an idealist, and if you possess that gift of feeling deeply, this album is for you,” shares Grace Annabella Anderson.
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Art, Baby unfolds across thirteen full-feeling tracks shimmering with poetic lyricism, confessional storytelling, and emotional reckoning. Produced at The Planetarium in Nashville, TN with Thomas Dulin, this record explores themes of nostalgia, disillusionment, and desire. Previously released singles off the album include the Love Potion, Take It Back, Halfway, Transgressor, Art, Baby and “Time to Let You Go.”
Reclaiming her sense of self, the title track “Art, Baby” celebrates the end of a relationship rather than mourning it. It channels release and renewal, poking fun at the arc of a connection between two creatives, and it explores the symbiotic relationship of artist and muse, and its ultimate dissolution. Directed by Samantha Joia (HBO’s The Welcome Table, Pursuit of Butterflies), the music video brings Anderson to life in a cloud of pink tulle situated as a living painting in a gilded frame. It follows Anderson through a picturesque Manhattan as she quietly rebuilds herself and breaks free from the narrow lens of the aloof artist we see only in moments of obscurity – adjusting, critiquing, surveilling, departing.
Drawing inspiration from artists like Lizzy McAlpine, Faye Webster, and Joni Mitchell, Anderson evokes a similar emotional resonance in her writing and delivery. Her lyrics, informed by her background as a published poet, are intimate, restrained, and piercing, existing at the intersection of literature and sound. Her writing has been featured in Mistake House Magazine, Applause Literary Journal, New Croton Review, and NYU’s West 10th, where she received the Editor’s Award in Poetry.
Beyond music, Anderson has made her mark in fashion, walking for Lanyu Couture and Sandriver Cashmere during New York Fashion Week SS26, and appearing in Lost Pattern’s “Oasis” collection and China Institute Fashion Night, as well as Alexis Levan’s collection presentation for New York Bridal Fashion Week. Her multidisciplinary approach reflects a creative universe that is as visual as it is emotional, a body of work built from vulnerability, atmosphere, and quiet power.
For the recording of Art, Baby, Anderson was joined by Nate Dugger on guitar, Ian Miller on piano, Brent Milligan on bass guitar, and Tim Buell on drums. Jake Hartsfield was the mixing engineer, and Joe Causey at Voyager Mastering was the mastering engineer.