Art School Girlfriend
Art School Girlfriend is an atmospheric electronic project from musician an… Read Full Bio ↴Art School Girlfriend is an atmospheric electronic project from musician and singer/songwriter Polly Mackey. After spending the early 2010s as part of textural shoegaze outfit Deaf Club, Mackey transitioned to a more synth-friendly approach with her solo work, finding her voice on several EPs and miscellaneous releases, and honing her ambient pop sound on her full-length albums Is It Light Where You Are and Soft Landing.

Hailing from Wrexham, North Wales, Mackey developed a taste for the work of artists like PJ Harvey and the Jesus & Mary Chain, as well as various new wave and shoegaze acts. After playing in various bands, including Deaf Club, she relocated to London where she lived for five years before settling in Margate, Kent. There she began writing her own songs -- inspired by her own experiences as well as the written works of Virginia Woolf and Milan Kundera -- and began listening to more electronic music from artists like John Maus and Caribou. Opting for the moniker "Art School Girlfriend," her songs caught the attention of Grammy Award-winning producer Paul Epworth (Florence + the Machine, Adele) and she signed with his label, Wolf Tone Records, in 2017. Her debut EP, Measures, followed later that year and Mackey promoted the release with live performances around the U.K. in 2018. A second EP, Into the Blue Hour, was released in 2018, and various remixes and standalone tracks followed over the next two years. The first Art School Girlfriend album, Is It Light Where You Are, came out on Wolf Tone Records in September of 2021, and was accompanied by companion piece Is It Dark Where You Are, a collection of remixes including work from Baltra, Jessica Winter, Blankson, and others, released in 2022. Sophomore album Soft Landing was released in August of 2023, created with the help of co-producer Riley MacIntyre and British songwriter Marika Hackman.
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Art School Girlfriend Lyrics


An Uncomfortable Month She's got me thinking like Something I am not A puppeteer an…
Anything You Want It's ten to, the fog's on the steep Stay awhile with…
Bending Back The very thought To make me come Over to yours It weighs upo…
Colour Me Colour me So I stay Keep me here In your mist So needy Ha ha…
Come Back To Me Lead me astray The focus that you pull in I'm feeling my…
Distance The two minds Of mine Howling again It wakes me up I lie Ou…
Distance (Blank) The two minds of mine, howling again It wakes me up I…
Diving Back seat, baby Are you ready for another one? You have your…
Eyes On You Baby yeah My mind's fueled up Gazing yeah I push my luck Wit…
Give Give me your worst I make you mine She's swimming in waves T…
Good As I Wanted Water runs And it feels as good as I wanted See your…
Helm In the park I'm reeling from your hands hot in the…
I Would Die 4 U I'm not a woman I'm not a man I am something that…



In The Middle It's the great ideal But I hold too tight and I…
Is It Light Where You Are Lost my head there for a minute I found my way…
Low I want it Everything That I could not have Once my name Was …
Low Light I'm picking up my words You left them on the floor They're…
Measures Advances Of a kind I'm uncertain In a past tense I could ben…
Moon I await at?? Look your way, and you tilt your head…
Outside I see you outside Soaking wet You pass the light From blue t…
Softer Side I read it somewhere About capacity Later that night you'll t…


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