Grace Gardner Speaks on Creating Her Debut EP "Peach"

Grace Gardner just released her debut EP, Peach which features four songs including her single “Parcel”. Gardner’s EP meshes her vocals and acoustic guitar to create an alluring sound unique to the artist. The lyrics are so sentimental that they tell a story to the listener with every line.

A few weeks ago I got the opportunity to ask the artist a couple of questions regarding her music and the advice she would have for aspiring artists! Check out this interview snippet from our conversation during a press conference hosted by 1824.

“What was the process like of creating your new EP and do you have a favorite moment of the process of making the EP?”

Grace Gardner: “The process honestly was pretty solitary I wanna say - I was producing it all from my desk, where I'm looking at y’all right now - and I had friends send in some instruments and it was remotely most of the time - actually all of the time, if I had anyone doing guest instruments they would do it in another city and email it to me. It was hard to kind of like to do it alone mostly because of the feelings contained in it, kind of just tough to process alone without other collaborators to work through them with you. And so I'm looking forward to having more in-person collaborations for my album. But, my favorite part of creating Peach was there was a last-minute inclusion called “Acrobatics” and me and my friend were kind of just messing around when we had like no inspiration and I started ranting about something I was feeling about not having closure with somebody and a whole like situationship type of thing like mental gymnastics, yadda, yadda, yadda. And it was three days before my EP was due and we hammered it out - wrote, produced, and mixed, everything in like 8 hours and dropped that on the EP. I think making that was probably my favorite memory.”

“Do you have any tips for any aspiring artists?”

Grace Gardner: “Absolutely I do. When I was so outta place… I felt like I didn't have traction or a certain success on TikTok, (etc.) however an artist defines success for them - how I defined for myself I didn't feel like I was getting it. I made music a central part of my life. I made it my 9-5 too. I was a teacher at the School of Rock for a really long time. So, I made my main money there. I also studied music in school before I left school. I was gigging all the time, I was practicing all the time. I kind of just made it my whole life. I felt so comfortable with that because I knew I wasn’t going to burn out on it. That part was a really reassuring feeling to me. I literally just did nothing but music. I will say there are sometimes I did that to a fault. So, I don’t recommend going to such an extreme where you're ignoring your family, friends, loved ones, etc. - like body needs. Don’t go that far. But I never stopped practicing. I was always writing, always playing. I was really always doing everything.”

Grace Gardner’s EP Peach is available to stream on all platforms now.