Grace Woodroofe celebrated her new album with a beautiful Rolling Stone AU/NZ In My Room session.
Woodroofe shared Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) at the beginning of May, and it was a momentous release for the indie-pop singer-songwriter.
Her new album allowed Woodroofe to finally tell her story on her own terms, tracing the arc of an emotionally abusive relationship over 10 tracks.
Brought to life with Matt Corby, Xavier Dunn, Oscar Dawson, and more collaborators, Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) is an unsparing but powerful listen.
“The album is sequenced to mirror the experience, letting the listener move through the relationship from the inside rather than through hindsight,” Woodroofe explains. “There’s no clarity or resolution guiding the story. It unfolds in real time.”
“Part 1 doesn’t end with closure or escape. It ends in waiting, bargaining, desperation. Because that’s where I was for a long time. So you’re left there, still in it. Part 2 marks the return to myself, but not before it gets darker,” she adds.
Listen to the album below.
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For her intimate In My Room session, Woodroofe performed three standout tracks from Rotate on the Ache (Part 1): “I Love You Babe”, “Control My Universe”, and “A Love That Could Kill”.
Watch her In My Room session above.
Woodroofe was first discovered by Heath Ledger and signed to his label, The Masses Music, when she was just 17.
Her debut album, Always Want, received positive reviews in 2011 and landed at No. 3 on the Australian iTunes Charts.
Following the release of music under a new moniker, R.W. Grace, in the middle of the previous decade, Woodroofe stepped away from her music career as she privately dealt with the aforementioned emotionally abusive relationship.
She thankfully found her way back to music, slowly but surely, and made up for lost time with key support slots for Sarah Blasko and Meg Washington.
Grace Woodroofe’s Rotate on the Ache (Part 1) is out now.
