Trinty Ace debut EP ‘Learning to Be a Cowboy on the Horse That Broke My Arm’ out this Friday

San Francisco artist Trinity Ace shared her double single “Algae Bloom” + “Martyr” she shares “Battle Cry” here last single ahead of  her debut EP ‘Learning to Be a Cowboy on the Horse That Broke My Arm’ out this Friday.

The project draws from a formative cross-country road trip taken just after she turned 18, traveling through the American West with her estranged father to meet family she had never known, an experience that sparked both the EP and an accompanying photography book. Its title reflects a generational story of endurance—her grandfather, who broke his arm as a child and let it heal untreated, continued riding the same horse daily and working as a rancher into his nineties—an image that anchors the record’s themes of pain, resilience, and inherited memory.

Trinity frames the EP as an act of “choosing to embrace something that hurt you” and ultimately, forgiveness, channeling a confessional intensity inspired by artists like Jeff Mangum, David Berman, and Leonard Cohen. That raw emotionality is rendered in visceral, almost mythic imagery across the record, where physical and symbolic pain blur together.

Trinity is immersed in the indie music scene spilling out of San Francisco’s Richmond District. Along with Trinity Ace, Double Helix Peace Treaty and Poor Image prove that the city’s fog is far from sedating — it seems to insulate them from outside conventions, creating conditions in which new sounds can run free. Reflecting on countercultural 1960s, a time that is popularly lamented due to the changing economic conditions of San Francisco, Gardner believes that magic still brims from the city. “I feel it most when I’m walking in the park. I think it’s, quite literally, a natural magic…it still proliferates. People are charged by it.”

Trinity Ace on “Battle Cry” – Battle Cry was written while I was still actually on the road trip. It was inspired by experiences I had at Pioneer Plaza in Dallas and at an Airbnb in a child’s bedroom in Albuquerque, NM.

I was walking through the Pioneer Plaza, which features a bunch of massive steel bull sculptures—an entire stampede of 49 life-size bulls. My dad was using their horns to pull himself up the hill and get around the park. At some point he said “I’ve always wanted to run with the bulls,” and I kind of started writing the song in my head right in that moment.

TRACK LISTING:
1. Pierce

2. Martyr

3. Talisman

4. Black Sheep/White Horse

5. Battle Cry

6. Algae Bloom