Grace Cummings – My God
Melbourne singer-songwriter Grace Cummings has announced Bloodhorse!, her fourth album, due August 14 on ATO Records. “My God” is the first single, recorded with producer Jonathan Wilson at his Topanga Canyon studio in California, the same setup as her 2024 album Ramona. The video was directed by Ben Portnoy.
The track is built around piano and percussion, with Cummings’ deep, breathy voice at the centre. She recorded it while suffering from pneumonia, and there’s something in the delivery that registers that: a rawness that feels less like a stylistic choice and more like a physical fact. Cummings is direct about what the song is doing. “The God here is the dark forces that are wrapping around us, that we scroll through, the toxic energy that binds us together in this modern world, and the fear we feed it every day.” She names phones, scrolling, the pull of things we don’t actually believe in, and frames it as a confession rather than a critique. That angle works better than a lecture would.
The album title comes from a specific image: a bloodhorse is bred to win, but is also temperamental, fragile, easily broken. Cummings applies it to herself without self-pity. “Sometimes I feel like I’m a trapped animal. And when I go to sleep, sometimes it’s like I’m in the gate, twitching. And as soon as I open my eyes, I’m fucking running.” Bloodhorse! promises shuddering synths and strings alongside the piano and voice of earlier records. If “My God” is a sign of where it lands, the darker palette suits her.
Europe / UK
- 06/08/26 / Amsterdam, Netherlands / Live at Bos (with Father John Misty)
- 06/09/26 / Cologne, Germany / Carlswerk Victoria (with Father John Misty)
- 06/10/26 / Antwerp, Belgium / OLT, Rivierenhof (with Father John Misty)
- 06/15/26 / London, UK / The George Tavern (SOLD OUT)
North America
- 10/03/26 / Reno, CA, USA / Offbeat Music Festival
