Miss Grit – Follow the Cyborg

Miss Grit's debut album invokes surrealist sensibilities and melodic hooks marking them as one to watch

Album Review by Anita Bhadani | 21 Feb 2023
  • Miss Grit - Follow the Cyborg
Album title: Follow the Cyborg
Artist: Miss Grit
Label: Mute
Release date: 24 Feb

“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction,” states theorist Donna Haraway in A Cyborg Manifesto. It’s this figure of the cyborg that Margaret Sohn, aka Miss Grit, invokes on their debut album, Follow the Cyborg. Sonically, melodic hooks meet artful arrangements to skilful effect. Electronic synths layer and swell, punctuated by screeching guitar and cymbals crashing; the contrast between the electronic and percussive elements furthers the dream-like feeling of existing within, and transcending reality. 

Across Follow the Cyborg, Sohn’s vocal delivery is nonchalant yet emotive in turn, evoking a compelling surreality. On 사이보그를 따라와 – a slowed down reworking of title track, Follow the Cyborg, in Korean – Sohn’s self-described “second-language-in-progress” creates a space where identity as a narrow boxing in – a confinement – is rejected. It instead embraces identity as expansive: transcending and reimagining what it means to exist within and outwith this altogether, on their own terms. Overall, Follow the Cyborg is a striking debut with both surrealist sensibilities and melodic hooks – marking Miss Grit as one to watch.

Listen to: Perfect Blue, 사이보그를 따라와 

http://missgrit.com