Let’s Eat Grandma feel it all

thefader.com:

Friendship has been the North Star for Let’s Eat Grandma since Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton began releasing music in 2016, though its light has been brighter at some points than others.

Their debut album I, Gemini was a mix of pastoral folk and electronic pop influences that sounded precisely as it was: the childlike product of two teenagers left to their own devices and inviting you in on a secret.

Coming off the back of their second album, 2018’s I’m All Ears, however, things had drifted somewhat. Without a major fall-out or fight to point to, the dynamic had fundamentally altered for reasons neither could explain. “We had so many conversations,” Rosa says now of their rocky period. “[But] it’s just that we couldn’t get to the bottom of it.” Jenny, clarifying, adds: “We just both assumed that the other one was mad at us for specific things that they hadn’t even said they were annoyed about.

It was all based on our insecurities.” To top it off, the pair were fighting to be taken on their own terms and expressed their frustrations within their music. “Hot Pink,” one of two songs on I’m All Ears produced by the late SOPHIE, was another idiosyncratic step forward for the pair. “I’m just an object of disdain to you,” they sang on that spiky lead single. “I’m only 17, I don’t know what you mean.” Once happily oblivious, they were now acutely aware of the gaze greeting their every move.