Quiet confessions: Gracie Abrams and the poetry of the unsaid

With The Secret of Us, Gracie Abrams opens a new chapter - bigger in sound, more lyrically open and just as emotionally sensitive as before. In collaboration with Aaron Dessner (The National) and, for the first time, with Taylor Swift as co-writer, she has created songs that balance between quiet intimacy and glittering bedroom pop. Tracks like "Risk" or "Us" tell of friendship, confusion, closeness and all the feelings in between - honest, vulnerable and without pathos. Abrams succeeds in transforming the everyday into small poetic snapshots. The Secret of Us is a softly glowing album about what remains unspoken.