A Song for the Misaligned: Inside Gabrielle Stein's New Single 'I'm Not Adjusting Well'"

July 16, 2025

A Song for the Misaligned: Inside Gabrielle Stein's New Single 'I'm Not Adjusting Well'"

A narrative emerged in a home studio in Buenos Aires, and not in the form of a team—an artist, Gabrielle Stein, integrated sound and spirit. In this setting, there are no critical collaborators to identify, no fellow musicians to celebrate. Only a single artist with a single creation. As the Gabrielle says, “This EP Is my design on love transforming through over the years and the self journey involving loads of highs and lows through acceptance and rejection, resilience and strength”. This is ongoing reflection where emerging melodies serve as motifs to personal dedication and hard work—a stream of conscience captured with every note recorded.

Gabrielle was not alone in the studio; she had an invisible orchestra of composers, singers, and musicians from each of the genres that she had ever listened to accompanying her. She was captured by whispers of classical composers, electronic innovators offered texture, and rock and trap artists brought vulnerable edges. The echoes of precise flute breaths from concert halls and distorted guitar riffs from grimy band stages are what she considers her companions. This release is a representation of Gabrielle lifetime mixtape, a collection of memories, movements, and moods.

At the heart of her new single "I'm Not Adjusting Well" from her forthcoming EP is the anxious pulse of being out of phase with the world. It illustrates the expectation versus identity tension and the stubborn refusal to give in. There are moments when we are called to surrender ourselves into spaces that were never designed for us. This song rebels against that pressure. It's an affirmation: everything does not have to be remade in you—sometimes it's the world that must change. The horizon does not have to be the destination; it must be the starting point.

It all came together in the walls of her home studio, where analog warmth and digital precision speak. On the canvas of Ableton, she painted in layers of sound—textures stacked, rhythms bent, imperfections indulged. It was an experimental, intuitive, and deeply emotional process. Now, as she brings this track into her live set—amongst tracks like "Broken as Fuck", "Magnify", and "Afterglow"—she's excited to let this sound burst beyond four walls. These songs don't belong to her anymore; they're ready to resonate with anyone living just a little outside the lines.