Mia Wray has announced her debut album 'hi, it's nice to meet me' with new single 'Nice To Meet Me'

Mia Wray has announced her debut album 'hi, it's nice to meet me' alongside new single 'Nice To Meet Me'.

The Melbourne-based singer-songwriter will release her first full-length record on 14th March via Mushroom Music, with the new single exploring her queer identity.

Speaking about the track, Wray explains: "This was the last song that was written. I was in the studio with G Flip and Aidan Hogg their producer. I told them the story; I was with my partner and I met this girl. She was just the cherry on top, the final realisation that something was really knocking at the door for me. I needed to answer it. I remember telling them that when I broke up with my boyfriend, we literally had a house on a hill. It was my uncle's place in Warrandyte. We were renting it. I remember a couple of days after the break-up, I'm trying to be there for him but also, for me, being there was very upsetting as well. I remember being like, I just need to pack some bags and go, I remember kissing him for the last time — I knew it was the last time, that was very intense. There was a really long dirt road driveway in the middle of the bush; I remember seeing him in the rearview mirror, just standing outside the house on the hill."

The twelve-track album also features previous singles 'Tell Her' and 'What If'. On the album's title, Wray shares: "It's all a bit of a blur, the whole realising that I was probably queer. The first thing I had in my notes was that I felt like I was saying hello to myself for the first time in a really long time. 'Hi, it's nice to meet me' just kept coming up in my brain as a theme. I thought it was cool and unique, I hadn't really seen that around a lot. It felt right. It was a real slap in the face like, 'Oh that's who I am, that makes sense…'"

The album's tracklist reads:

'Nice To Meet Me'
'Tell Her'
'Sad But True'
'What If'
'The Way She Moves'
'Only Love'
'Fake A Smile'
'Get Out My Way'
'Not Enough'
'Not The Same As Yesterday'
'Ghost In My Machine'
'Everybody Knows'