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Gracie Abrams Kicks off New Era With Devastatingly Great ‘Hit the Wall’

Rolling Stone·Angie Martoccio·18 days ago
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Track is the lead single off upcoming album Daughter From Hell Days after Gracie Abrams revealed her new album Daughter From Hell , the singer-songwriter has dropped the lead single “Hit the Wall.” “Hit the Wall” opens with a twinkling of synths, as Abrams sings, “I’m a crack in the pavement/I’m a slipknot/I’m afraid that my fortress/Is a glass box.” And later, as the instrumentation simmers: “Sooner or later, you’ll find out/I live in a pattern of breakdowns.” In the video above, directed by Renell Medrano, Abrams appears lost as she opens a series of blue doors that lead to different dreamlike scenarios. One door leads to the singer sitting on a hospital bed while doctors hold up inkblots, while another opens to an eerie corridor with twins waiting at the end, a scene echoing The Shining . The visual concludes on a bittersweet note, with Abrams singing in front of a burning tree, “I’m not a problem you can solve.” Daughter From Hell , Abrams’ third album , arrives July 17 via Interscope Records.…

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