And she’ll perform at the Boston Calling Music Festival in May.All classic Groucho songs are included. She was named one of NPR ’s Slingshot Artists to Watch the same year. In 2018, one of Gish’s songs made it onto one of Spotify’s “New Music Friday” playlists. Gish has an agent and a manager, but otherwise said, “I want to be as self-sufficient as I can possibly be.” In high school, she also started recording and posting covers of songs, or made up her own about “ The Hunger Games or whatever,” she said.Īt Northeastern, she did co-ops at Aircraft Music Library and Island Records, and started teaching herself everything she could about music production and management, while honing her guitar-playing skills.

She played the recorder in elementary school, started fiddling around with recording music in middle school, and performed in her high school choir. “And so instead, I’m like, ‘you can’t do that,’ the only creative work I’m trying to make is going to be the stuff I actually share, so that way it’ll be less of a hellscape and I’ll be happier.” “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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