Ali Forrest

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Ali Forrest is a North Carolina-based songwriter making thoughtful songs about strange times. Her music shifts comfortably between intimate, stripped-down moments and chaotic, guitar-driven release, pairing observant, sometimes wry storytelling with arrangements that can feel either close and conversational or loud and unfiltered. She has a knack for finding humor in the mildly catastrophic—the awkward, the uncertain, the quietly unraveling—and turning it into something warm and relatable.

She started playing guitar in middle school, writing songs not long after and stashing away lyrics in secret for years. After releasing her first song at 25, that pent-up songwriting surfaced in a prolific run: her 2023 EP Raised Wrong, 2024's Body, and 2025's breakout full-length Cagefighter. Both Raised Wrong and Cagefighter were produced by Jacob Blizard (Lucy Dacus, Eliza McLamb, Illuminati Hotties).

Cagefighter earned Forrest recognition as Best New Singer-Songwriter of 2024 from the Charlotte alt-weekly Queen City Nerve, cementing her place in the city's growing songwriter community.

Now, Forrest is building her next full-length record, beginning with the new single "2035," out February 26, 2026. "2035" takes a cautionary look at artificial intelligence and its creeping influence on relationships, jobs, and even therapy. "I was feeling a lot of doom when I wrote it," she says. As technology races forward, Forrest is more interested in what it leaves behind—and who we become along the way.