Australian Guitar

BREAKING FREE

The incomparable Miss Grit has just released a new EP, Impostor. After 2019’s debut EP Talk Talk earned favourable comparisons to the likes of Nilufer Yanya and St. Vincent, it is – with knowing irony – the sound of an artist cutting her own path. Across the six songs it melds airy melody, ricocheting delays and bitcrushed riffs, all the while deconstructing the impostor syndrome that dogs us all as musicians – and has haunted Sohn for fair chunks of her life.

Sohn, by her own telling, grew up feeling somewhat out of place. As a Korean-American in the whitewashed Michigan suburbs, she found a home in the music her Dad blasted from the basement. Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, The Cure all poured into hungry ears. The guitar soon followed and she

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