Gracie Abrams has released her sophomore album, The Secret of Us, via Interscope Records. The record, co-written with her close friend Audrey Hobert and co-produced alongside her frequent collaborator Aaron Dessner, has only one feature: Taylor Swift, who Abrams opened for on 30+ shows of the Eras Tour’s 2023 North American run. Swift joins Abrams on the mid-album track “us,” an ode to an older former partner who Abrams hasn’t quite let go of. The Secret of Us‘ lead single, “Risk,” has nearly 33 million streams on Spotify, and racked up a full million of them in the song’s first hour of release.
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This September, Abrams will embark on a sold-out headlining tour to support the album, kicking off in Portland, Oregon, and featuring stops at Los Angeles’ The Greek Theater, New York’s Radio City Music Hall, and Nashville’s Roman Auditorium. The 18-date tour is produced by Live Nation. After that, she’ll rejoin Swift for another round of Eras Tour performances. When Abrams released her last full-length LP, Good Riddance, in 2023, her limited run of shows supporting the record sold out in under an hour.
Abrams, who is the daughter of noted director and Lost creator J.J. Abrams, cites Joni Mitchell and Elliott Smith as some of her earliest childhood musical influences. The Los Angeles-based artist began sharing music under her own name back in 2019, releasing a debut EP, minor, in 2020. Since then, she’s made songs with other rising artists like Noah Kahan while adding co-production credits with figures like Jim-E Stack and Dessner (who has worked with Swift, his band the National, and more) to her resume.
