Saya Gray Returns With Brand New EP ... QWERTY III
SAYA GRAY
RETURNS WITH NEW EP QWERTY III
NEW TRACKS TO BE DEBUTED LIVE ON RUN OF NEW YORK SHOWS INCLUDING FREE SHOW @ 526 W 114th STREET
Singer-songwriter, producer, and instrumentalist Saya Gray returns with QWERTY III, the third installment in her series of EPs that offer an unfiltered look into her creative process. Out now via Dirty Hit, the seven-track project finds Saya diving headfirst into her artistic impulses, fusing new sounds and textures that highlight her penchant for effortless worldbuilding.
While her debut album SAYA highlighted her singular approach to songwriting and ear for production through a collection of melody driven songs, her QWERTY series offers a different perspective to Saya’s artistry, capturing the breadth of her musical curiosity and the unconventional ideas that shape her work. Across the series, she pushes beyond familiar structures, revealing new dimensions to an artist whose creative instincts rarely follow a predictable path.
Speaking of the new EP, Saya shares:
“Q EPS ARE EXPERIMENTS BETWEEN PROJECTS. THE THROWAWAYS. THE CATHARTIC MOMENTS THAT DON’T FIT BETWEEN ERAS OF CHANGE. LIKE THE FOLLICULAR PHASE. THE FERTILE VOID. OR THAT SLIM JIM BETWEEN MYSTIC AND MAD.
I FEEL WEIRD BECAUSE WE’RE LIVING IN A WEIRD WORLD, AND THESE LIL MIXTAPES ARE MY DOCUMENTATION OF THAT FEELING. A REFLECTION OF EVERYTHING. I’D RATHER MAKE HONEST SHIT THAN SOMETHING THAT FITS IN SO THESE ARE LITTLE OFFERINGS FROM THE IN-BETWEEN SPACE.. TRANSITIONS OF A FERAL WOMAN. NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.”
Saya first introduced herself with her 2022 EP 19 MASTERS, a collection of dissonant electro-rock sketches recorded largely through her iPhone's Voice Notes app. The project established her as an artist unafraid to follow her instincts beyond traditional songwriting conventions, earning recognition from TIME, The New York Times, Pitchfork, NPR, and more. She followed it with QWERTY and QWERTY II, the latter featuring “AA Bouquet for Your 180 Face,” which ranked No. 22 on The New York Times' Best Songs of 2024 list. With QWERTY III, Saya returns to this space of sonic freedom, documenting the ideas, feelings, and musical experiments that emerge along the way.
In 2025, she released her debut full-length album SAYA, a 10-track body of work shaped by personal transformation during a retreat to Japan and a journey toward a more cohesive expression of her songwriting. The album was praised by numerous publications including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, DAZED, Stereogum, NME and Paste Magazine, among others, and also saw her debut performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk. This fall, Saya Gray opened for Turnstile at Toronto’s Woodbine Park on September 12th, where she debuted QWERTY III track “SPOOO0OOOOF.”
Across her work, she continues to move between genres with instinctive fluidity, drawing on her background as a bassist, her musical upbringing – nurtured by parents who are both classically trained musicians – and an expansive musical imagination that resists easy categorization.
On November 7th, Saya Gray will perform at Knockdown Center alongside Danny L Harle, Ela Minus, and Contact Sports, followed by a sold-out performance at New York’s Night Club 101 on November 8th, where she’ll bring music from QWERTY III and her lauded discography to life. On November 9th, she’ll close out the weekend with a free house show at 526 W 114th Street in New York.
Upcoming Live Dates
11/7 - New York, NY @ Knockdown Center (OUTLINE Festival)
11/8 - New York, NY @ Night Club 101 (SOLD OUT)
11/9 – New York, NY @ 526 W 114th Street (FREE SHOW)
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