Miss Grit – the New York-based, Korean-American musician Margaret Sohn (they/she) – is a bold experimentalist and architect of sculptural texture known for deftly moving between analogue and digital, guitar and synths, and creating an immersive cosmos of sound with futuristic frameworks for their searching introspection. Today, Miss Grit returns with a new track, ‘Tourist Mind’, which finds them channeling the noirish atmosphere of classic trip-hop while adding a hefty dose of maximalism and a dream-pop sensibility. The result is a magnificent techno stomper with stirring strings, smacking drums and a hazy atmosphere.
Sohn is someone who often finds themself intrigued by other people’s inner worlds. With ‘Tourist Mind’, they meditate on the idea of self-erasure, and embrace the power and intimacy of self-reliance and solitude, singing: “I’ve never wanted to be so alone.” Talking about thetrack, Sohn explains, “It’s about how curiosity for other people’s thoughts can slowly disorient you and make it harder to return to yourself.”
