Gracie Abrams captures pain of early adulthood in new album - but you're left wanting more

BBC News Saturday 18 July 2026, 00:33 UTC 1 min read

Key Points

The singer's third album is full of incisive, witty lyrics that are let down by muted production.

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Hand-painted works are often wildly unfaithful to the movies they portray – reinterpretations that sometimes resulted in threats, insults and even physical attacks from viewers who felt dupedSitting on his porch in Teshie near Accra, Heavy J dipped a brush into red oil paint and dabbed it carefully on to his canvas – a flour sack – adding blood to a knife being wielded by a man. Higher on the canvas, he had started on an outline of a skull. Heavy J was creating a poster, but not as you might...

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