Grumpy has returned with a new single, ‘Twenty Five’. It marks the Heaven Schmitt-led project’s first release of 2026, and you can listen to it below.
“It’s about loving her so much and having this really selfish thought of like, ‘Oh God, what if you could do that and we never meet?’” Schmitt shared in a statement. “The song is me telling her, ‘If you ever get that opportunity, please leave a clue so that you can get back to me in the present.’”
“Ellie and I were at home and we were talking about being trans and time travel, and she said she wished she could go back in time and transition at a younger age,” they added. “I then had such a sefilsh thought; I worried that, if she went back in time and changed something, what if it altered the future such that we never met? So I told her, if she ever gets the opportunity to travel back in time, make sure she can get back to me and meet me in 2025. The lyrics in the beginning sum it up ‘when you travel back, leave a clue so that you can still find me when you get to 2025.'”
Since signing to Bayonet Records in 2024, Grumpy have released two EPs for the label, Wolfed and Piebald. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Grumpy.
