“I was living in this huge world of all the ideas I’d had that I’d written down and been listening back to, to scan for quality and maybe include in creative work, and I’d been doing that my whole life,” Gish said. Photo by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern UniversityĪnd even then, she has hundreds of ideas that haven’t seen the light of day. The vocal trick betrayed the same sense of conflicting layers that Pitchfork, The Fader, and The Guardian each noted in their descriptions of her work, and it indicates something about how Gish thinks. She changes the tone of her voice in a way that relays two different pieces of information at the same time: what she was saying and a commentary on what she was saying. Gish does that at times when describing herself or her songwriting process. “New year, new me!” she said in a high-pitched voice that both mocked the earnestness of those yearly goals and acknowledged their value. Gish, who’s studying music industry and is set to graduate from Northeastern in December, was fresh off a tour with the critically-acclaimed musician Mitski and had just notched a win at the Boston Music Awards (she was nominated for four awards and won Album of the Year for her second album, No Dogs Allowed ), and was thinking about New Year’s resolutions for 2019. As long as I’m not hurting anyone and not hurting myself I’m allowed to do whatever I want to do.” Student musician is NPR’s artist to watchĪnd the British news outlet The Guardian called the Northeastern student “mordantly funny, her bleakly cute rhyming schemes souring her sweet indie-pop.”Īs for Gish? She said that she’s trying to “think less, in a very head-ass removed way, about how I’m being creative, and set aside a time to be creative every day.
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