Saya Gray

Eat Your Own Ears and Dollop present Saya Gray at Electric Brixton.

For Toronto outsider pop auteur Saya Gray, music is a glittering mosaic of endless influences.   

Her body of work is akin to a sonic chimera; its limbs assembled from disparate, but complimentary musical organisms. Does she make pop? Folk? Rock? R&B? The moment you think you’ve got her pinned, she’s gone like a flash. “I'm constantly moving, physically and emotionally and spiritually” says Gray. “The influence of whatever's around you will always seep in. [It’s why] I've been a vagabond for a very long time.”

Gray’s often collage-like sonicspheres, blanketed with layers of riffs upon layers of electronic chatter, demonstrate the limitless potential of music as an art form. In an industry where music often feels constrained not only by genre, but by celebrity status and the demands of the streaming economy, Gray’s passion for raw experimentation serves as a model for what possibilities can arise when an artist quiets their superego and lets their id take the reins.

        

Japanese-Canadian artist, Saya Gray has a unique ability to create a collage of sounds that feel both comforting and disorienting, vast yet intimate. Her releases so far, 2022's '19MASTERS' , 2023's 'QWERTY I' and 2024's 'QWERTY II' were made in periods of intense isolation, and as Saya herself describes it, she puts '1000 personalities in one song'. It's this unfiltered, frenzied approach to her art that she feels is necessary to reclaim her sense of self in an ever changing world - and in the process marking her as one of the most exciting, up and coming musicians operating today. 2025 is a landmark year for Saya as she released her debut album 'SAYA" - which is by far her most personal and intimate project to date.