Under My Umbrella Miss Grit

• 1 Tourist Mind 04:46
• 2 Mind Disaster 03:19
• 3 Won't Count On You 04:39
• 4 It Feels Like 03:21
• 5 Where Is My Head 03:40
• 6 Stranger 03:20
• 7 You Will Change 03:55
• 8 Overflow 03:21
• 9 Waste Me 03:12
• Total Runtime 33:33

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For their second full-length album, Under My Umbrella, Miss Grit has lifted the lid on their internal world, lasering in on the anxieties and heartbreak of the past two years, following their acclaimed debut Follow the Cyborg.

On this album, Margaret Sohn – aka Miss Grit (they/she) – channels the noirish atmosphere of classic trip-hop bands, while adding a hefty dose of maximalism and a dream-pop sensibility. The title is a nod to the iconic Rihanna song and embraces Sohn “…letting people in more on this record and trying not to shy away from that. I’m leaving the cyborg behind, I’m letting it all out.”

This record started to take shape when Sohn returned from an intense touring schedule where they’d driven themself around North America totally alone. When they returned home, Sohn found themself yearning to capture that specific, less restrained energy of playing live.

Under My Umbrella not only presents Sohn’s gift for complex production, but also the boldness of finding your voice, and ultimately is about coming to terms with yourself, your imperfections, and your complex interior world.

On this album, Miss Grit brings in a focused group of friends from New York and Los Angeles. Contributors include electronic composer and film scorer Sae Heum Han (mmph), bassist Margaux Bouchegnies (Margaux), singer Eva Liu (Mui Zyu), producer Luciano Rossi (Mui Zyu), drummer Preston Fulks (Momma) and violinist Zachary Mezzo (Catcher). Their parts sit within Sohn’s core production palette of guitars, synths and detailed sound design, maintaining the project’s balance between electronic and band-driven arrangements.

The album’s writing centres on pulling away from expectations and regaining personal agency. Several songs examine how constant exposure to other people’s emotions and demands can erode a stable identity. Others address the tension of being closely involved with someone while trying not to disappear into that relationship. Throughout, Miss Grit uses direct, plain language rather than abstract concepts, reflecting a conscious move towards more straightforward lyric writing.

Miss Grit

Miss Grit
is the project of Queens-based American electronic musician Margaret Dewey Sohn, who grew up in Grosse Pointe, Michigan before studying music technology at New York University and adopting the Miss Grit moniker. Early work emerged from New York’s indie and electronic scene, with songs written and recorded between studies and part-time engineering work.

Sohn self-released the debut EP “Talk Talk” in January 2019, a four-track digital release recorded at Virtue and Vice Studios and produced in collaboration with Charles Mueller. The EP introduced a blend of guitar-driven indie rock, synth textures and tightly structured songwriting, and established Miss Grit as part of Brooklyn’s alternative scene. A second EP, “Impostor”, followed in February 2021, again self-released and expanding the project’s production detail while continuing to foreground Sohn’s guitar work.

In 2022, Miss Grit signed to Mute Records. Side-Line covered this step in the article Electronica artist Miss Grit signs to Mute, returns with a new single, introducing the project to its readership as Sohn prepared the first material for the label. That same year, Miss Grit issued the single “Like You”, with Side-Line following the build-up to the debut album through Miss Grit back with title track and video of 2023 album ‘Follow the Cyborg’ and Miss Grit returns with all new single and video, ‘Lain (phone clone)’.

The full-length “Follow the Cyborg” arrived on 24 February 2023 via Mute (STUMM 483), self-produced by Sohn in New York and framed around a cyborg character exploring questions of identity, control and otherness. The album was later expanded with the “Follow the Cyborg Remixes EP” in December 2023, featuring reworks by Aron Kobayashi Ritch, Yaz Lancaster, Phong Tran, Nyokabi Kariũki, torr, Cyber Fairy and Gilla Band’s Alan Duggan-Borges. In June 2024, Miss Grit released “The End (mmph Remix)”, which further highlighted the connection with composer Sae Heum Han.

Alongside this core catalogue, Miss Grit has built a parallel discography of remixes and collaborations. These include a remix of Depeche Mode’s “Ghosts Again”, released as part of a series of alternative versions in 2024, and a remix of Nation of Language’s “Too Much, Enough”, accompanied by an extensive support slot on the band’s 2023 EU, UK and North American dates. In 2025, Side-Line reported on the Dublin project The Null Club’s self-released single “Overgrown” featuring Miss Grit, issued as a limited 12″ and digital release.

On the singles front, Miss Grit continued the post-“Cyborg” period with the digital release “Tourist Mind” in October 2025 on Mute, a track described as channelling trip-hop atmosphere with maximalist electronics and dream-pop elements. Side-Line covered the release in Miss Grit releases new single “Tourist Mind” on Mute (October 20, 2025), positioning it as the first new music since the debut album.

Across these releases, Miss Grit’s work sits at the intersection of electronic music, indie pop and indie rock, with a strong emphasis on self-production and detailed sound design. The forthcoming album “Under My Umbrella” continues that trajectory, shifting from speculative cyborg narratives towards a direct exploration of recent emotional experience, while maintaining the project’s focus on precise, carefully layered arrangements.

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