Album Review: RW Grace - Love It Need It Miss It Want It

20 November 2015 | 3:45 pm | Ross Clelland

"Songs like Down Looking Above have a restrained ache, the voice and pain lunging for your chest."

Some refer to what RW does as 'future pop'. It appears the future is now.

What she does is make textured liquid synth pop with an intriguing ability to sound effortless, yet feel of struggle. That struggle and loss can be relationship-based, but might have echoes of her own caree's false start with another label and another name. Songs like Down Looking Above have a restrained ache, the voice and pain lunging for your chest. But it's the layered All The Friends I Lost, with its sliding doors not taken, that knows she can't escape her dreams — nor should she.