From the synonymous eSCAPISM made famous on Tiktok – TO performing at Glastonbury’s acclaimed Pyramid stage, it marks a mammoth year for Raye. And she’s only just getting started.
RAYE’s music is more than tinkling the ivories and singing a few high notes. It’s years and years of hurt and wait leading up to championing stellar artistry. Which, all resulted in her hotly-anticipated debut, My First 21st Century Blues, a recanting of emotive lounge-soul wrapped up as sweet revenge for all those who doubted her as a successful artist. From 7 years in the industry troubles resulting in sexual abuse at 18, she’s back 7 years later. With an independently-released debut album alongside her, the 25-year-old shares a powerful speech about the same abuse – aimed directly at those who wronged her.
Who says revenge has to be served cold? Instead, RAYE’s music is serving it as a sweet luxury, laced in a beautiful suave of honest soul-pop / conscious hip-hop. It is more a serving to move on with a stronger heart as opposed to let it eat away at you. Above all else, it proves the worth of RAYE as a class performer and writer. Despite a wealth of setbacks, the deplorable love of writing and performing music has been the catalyst for her carry on. Of course, the music doesn’t stay in one box either. It crosses many thresholds of tightly-knit funk grooves, jazzy horns, electronic synth waves, booming hip-hop and leisured soul-pop.
Music at its most hypnotic, RAYE’s catalogue is littered with anthems, smooth enough to run through your hands like butter. It’s sumptuously delivered, celebrated with poetic justice – if you don’t know RAYE enough, get to know her.
“all my music is a form of medicine to me somewhere”.
RAYE at Glastonbury 2023
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