Driving Music by Mallrat

Driving Music, the third EP from Brisbane's Mallrat, the stage name of Grace Shaw, came out on 6 September 2019 and climbed to number 10 on the ARIA chart. The title isn't just a mood: Shaw explained that so many of the moments that matter happen in a car, and a good part of the EP plays like a diary of her own best ones, songs she had been sitting on and replaying on her laptop for ages before letting them go.

It sounds like it, too, all soft focus and streetlight glow, a singer who can also rap letting her melodies drift past like scenery. "Charlie" is the one that broke through. Driving Music capped a run of EPs that began with Uninvited and In the Sky, and her debut album, Butterfly Blue, followed in 2022.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.