Gracie and Rachel have announced ‘If We Could, Would We,’ their new album arriving April 10 on Righteous Babe Records, alongside a double single, “How Can I” and “Caroline,” premiering today. The two tracks are the duo’s first solo efforts released together, each approaching the album’s central preoccupation from a different angle. “How Can I” sits in the regret of a risk taken and wished back, while “Caroline” works through the grief of a relationship’s end by projecting onto an idealized external figure. Both land with the melodic sharpness and emotional directness that earned the duo two NPR Tiny Desk Concert sets and Rolling Stone’s “Song You Need to Know” designation for their 2025 single “WTF.”
Produced by Benjamin Lazar Davis (Okkervil River, Maya Hawke), ‘If We Could, Would We’ pushes Gracie and Rachel’s sound further than anything they’ve done before. Rachel plays guitar on record for the first time, the songwriting splits between four solo tracks each and four co-written songs, and the result is the duo at their most unguarded. Since their praised 2017 self-titled debut, Gracie and Rachel have opened for Tori Amos, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus. A headline U.S. run follows in June.
Gracie and Rachel Headline Tour:
June 4 – Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy
June 5 – Washington, D.C. @ Songbyrd Music House
June 6 – Durham, NC @ The Pinhook
June 10 – Kingston, NY @ Tubby’s
June 11 – Somerville, MA @ The Rockwell
June 12 – Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust