Sarah Grace White announces her new album, Sinkhole, will drop on June 28th, today, she is debuting single/video, “Light.” The EP was co-produced with Jorge Balbi.

The music video for “Light,” directed by Emilie Wilde, uses abstract visuals and in-camera effects to transport us into White’s world. “The concept for the ‘Light’ video is built on the performance of self-imposed isolation – who you become when you’re disconnected from everyone and yet locked into the space around you,” Wilde explains. “I wanted to take advantage of Sarah’s ability to be comfortable being weird. She brings an innocence to the performance that’s really refreshing.”

Coming from a musical family, White always sang. This led to school choirs, then bands, and even a stint of Bulgarian throat singing. In high school, she was enamored with a kind of physical and visceral theater and went off to study drama, not really knowing what she wanted to do with her life, but knowing she needed to perform. She began to pursue acting, but found a dissonance between the art she wanted to make and the kind of workforce she began to enter. “I didn’t feel good at the entire environment of it, but I wanted to create, and I knew I needed to find my own way in.” Throughout this exploration, White was simultaneously, though secretly, exploring music – writing in her room, singing in the car, jotting down lyrics and phrases at odd moments, but afraid to commit to music publicly. Music kept gnawing at White until a natural breaking point – “the need overcame the fear and it felt harder to ignore it than to just do it.” White’s best friend gave her an ultimatum just a couple years back – sing or stop talking about it.

White chose to sing. She took a handful of songs to friend Jorge Balbi, (Sharon Van Etten) and mixer but never a full producer for another artist. Both having a penchant for cathartic soundscapes, the two spent weeks compiling sounds and inspirations – The Durutti Column, Talk Talk, Kate Bush, The Blue Nile, New Order, and newer artists like The Weather Station and Westerman, “music where you can hear the negative space, and you feel it in your whole body” – before starting work on White’s debut EP, 2023’s Are You Here This Time.

White enjoys “the celebration and shame in finding depth in something small.” She does this so dexterously that the elements she presents converge, combine, dissolve – the inertia of them rushing down the drain, leaving us clean – “each of these songs were written from subconscious morning reflections of the night before – sitting in my sunlit kitchen, visited by flashes of touch, smells of must and alcohol, conversations misconstrued, mistakes, precious wins.”

Pre-order Sinkhole by Sarah Grace White HERE