Ears Wide Open: GiGi Grombacher

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GiGi Grombacher (Photo by Callum Walker Hutchinson)

Singer-songwriter GiGi Grombacher possesses some nice bona fides for an emerging pop artist: she’s been featured vocalist on songs by Young Bombs, Manila KillA and the Him; she was a co-writer on Ava Max’s “So Am I;” her song “Hotshot” was featured on “The L Word: Generation Q;” and she has a new publishing deal that allowed her to depart her day job as a veterinary assistant.

And as of today, she has a one of those pop songs that stops you dead in your tracks, “Girl.”

It’s the lead track on her first EP, “Virgin Tears,” out today. Co-written with Annika Rose, Luka Kloser and Tido and produced by Fredrik Lundström, the slow-building piano ballad aches from the sting of a breakup, Grombacher’s vocals avoiding sheer histrionics while channeling her palpable hurt.

It’s one of two songs on the EP, including the closing title track, produced by Lundström; Hudson Mohawke has his fingerprints on three others. The singer is the daughter of Myron Grombacher, drummer for Pat Benatar (who is GiGi’s godmother). As the pop bop “The Marilyn” and the banger “Dot It for Love” attest, “Virgin Tears” isn’t all mopey balladry, even though it starts and ends there. Pop fans should get on board.

||| Stream: “Girl”

||| Also: Stream “The Marilyn”

||| Also: Stream “Virgin Tears” in its entirety