Mallrat has been breaking barriers since her influential debut in 2016 – accumulating over half a billion career streams in her discography and ARIA Platinum status. The project of Grace Shaw has shared stages with Maggie Rogers, Post Malone, King Princess, Conan Gray; collaborated with Azealia Banks, The Chainsmokers, BENEE, Blu DeTiger, Cub Sport; a late night TV debut on The Late Late Show with James Corden; headline world tours amongst globally recognised festivals Reading and Leeds, Austin City Limits, Laneway, Splendour In The Grass, Listen Out and boasts multiple triple j Hottest 100 entries from 2017 – 2020. The adored songwriter and producer, Mallrat has catapulted across the globe with critical acclaim from NPR, Stereogum, NME, NYLON, PAPER Magazine, The New York Times, Billboard, Noisey and more further affirming Mallrat as a beacon primed for the world stage.

Exploring the intangible and mysterious allure of human connection, Light hit my face like a straight right is held together by curious investigations. In Mallrat’s vision of the world, light is more than photons and electromagnetic radiation hitting the eye — it’s a moment of divine intervention. “I love the idea you can let your fate be decided by rays of light,” she shares. A bold step into the art of world-building, Mallrat breaks new artistic ground with her intuitive songwriting and clever, studied production. Light hit my face like a straight right balances the picturesque with the acerbic in both narrative and sound, presenting an all new cohesive statement for a creative at the top of her game.

Mallrat’s new album Light hit my face like a straight right, arrives born from a world of magical realism in Australian suburbia. With an ounce of influence from her time growing up in Brisbane, Grace Shaw consistently seeks out (real or imaginary) magic in the otherwise ugly and everyday, as a means to understand the people and world around her. Twelve songs bound with expressive breaks, heartfelt moments, and dance floor ready beats, the record’s sum isn’t abstract or tied to didactic stories, but instead, presented as its own inherent being – the music Mallrat loves making most captures a feeling or time that words alone don’t do justice.