Garrett Anthony Rice Drops “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” & Surprise Christmas Single, “As Magic As the Snow”

November 24, 2025 (Greystones, IE) // Garrett Anthony Rice’s single release, “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” and surprise single “As Magic as the Snow,” captures two distinct but intertwined shades of reflection. Both pieces explore how loss and memory leave their shadow long after loved ones have left us.

“Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” is quiet in a nearly holy way. The newest song from his upcoming double album, Equinox, reveals itself with the consideration of coming to terms with the past. Built on a melody that unfurls like a gentle guitar accented with soft flourishes of piano, you might think of the song less as a performance and more as a moment of memory. The writing feels like it is coming from those quiet corners of emotion, the moments when absence isn’t sharp, but simply part of the landscape. The spirit of the song is not to reconcile what has been lost. Instead, it captures the elegiac form of what once was. Whether the absence comes in the way of death, estrangement, or time doing what time does, the way Rice approaches distance is full of grace and tenderness that feels earned.

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Garrett Anthony Rice “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder” single artwork

Garrett Anthony Rice “As Magic as the Snow” single artwork