Ruby Gill / Poetry Book “I’m not exaggerating when I say” / Blue Holly Herndon displaying a serious knack for

displaying a serious knack for melodic songwriting underneath unconventional guitar lines and scrawls of fuzz

Open Wide is 13 songs that feels unique—a guitar-driven pop album unlike any other

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drawing the listener into the soundscape

The long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s ‘Babble’ and 2020’s ‘All Together Now’

Ruby Gill / Poetry Book “I’m not exaggerating when I say” / Blue Holly Herndon displaying a serious knack forRuby Gill Poetry Book Im not exaggerating when I say Blue Ruby Gill's long awaited first poetry book I'm not exaggerating when I say is out 11 Dec 2025, with pre orders exclusive to Soundmerch. This deeply intimate, absurd and revelatory exploration of queerness, migration, sex, birds, grief and roadkill was written over the last 5 years as Ruby tried her best to untie the knot. Poems from this collection have been published in Harvard Advocate, The