Rae Morris - Someone Out There (out Feb 2 2018)

sophomore album from British singer-songwriter shifting from elegant, austere piano to richly vibrant electronics. it's the first record of the year that i'm stoked to hear.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnTXW3AdcWM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vs_-eDD1By8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNEkBWq5C1g

Do It is great so i'm looking forward to this

i want to like her and will keep checking on her every so often but her semi-sleepy piano ballads from before she started taking off have grabbed a hold of me more than anything i've heard since

just gonna leave this here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXuyL6jR7mY

pleasantly surprised by this given that I couldn't even give her first album a complete play

Yeah, these singles have been way ahead of anything on her first album. I really struggled with that album, although it didn't help that I listened to it the same day I heard Ten Love Songs for the first time.

Do It in particular has become a favourite. I didn't hear it until Popjustice made it their single of the year. The video is utterly charming too.

This album is such a massive leap in quality, I can't quite believe it's the same artist. Really beautiful stuff.

If this is all as good as 'Do It' then count me in.

It’s not, but it is very good I think.

I’m choosing to pretend that LiveLounge cover video doesn’t exist for the time being.

this album is quite good but i have no idea what a very bland piano ballad like the title track is doing on it

OMG @ 'Dancing With Character'.

This gets better and better as the nights start to draw in.

surprised i never mentioned how much i love "wait for the rain"

That + Do It + Atletico (The Only One) + Dip My Toe + Dancing With Character, that's a pretty high hit rate for a pop singer no one gives a shit about.

I wasn't too keen on Reborn either until the BBC used it as their montage music at the end of the World Cup.

Love Dancing With Character

While I'm not listening to this album I half-convince myself that it's just another electropop album, but it's startlingly memorable and singular in ways I can't put my finger on.

I got a bit burned out on this album at the beginning of the year, but I just went back to it after seeing this thread revive and it sounds glorious. I wish she'd had more success with it.

Every song is wonderful, aside from maybe the title track, but even that has appeal if I'm in a maudlin mood.

While I'm not listening to this album I half-convince myself that it's just another electropop album, but it's startlingly memorable and singular in ways I can't put my finger on.

It feels like it's the first consciously post-Melodrama pop album but even that doesn't quite cover it. I know comparing things to Kate Bush is easy and lame but on songs like Atletico she's nailed that sort of 'The Big Sky' freewheeling joyous whoop. None of the artists who are typically compared to her ever do that.

There's more interesting going on in the songwriting and performance than there is in the production, I think.

There's more interesting going on in the songwriting and performance than there is in the production, I think.

This is a good way to put it I think.

Another way to say this is that while Betty Who tried (and failed) to literally recreate the singular magic of “I Love You Always Forever”, Rae is better placed to capture its sense of effervescence.

Really hope this album can sneak into the end of year list in a few weeks. I've been going back to it so much and have now realised that Dancing With Character is the most beautiful song of the year.

really aside from the title track this whole record really goes

"rose garden" and "dip my toe" hit in particular this time through

"Wait For The Rain"...what a song

otm

Love the whole album, but Dancing With Character is the one. This album should have made her a huge star.

I was just thinking about this album and wondering what Rae was up to yesterday.

"Do It" should have been everywhere!!!!!!!!!

She had a christmas song out last month and appeared on this track last year so still around. Maybe we'll get some new material this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3CmNAAlAPQ

New song with fellow Blackpoolian Sophie Aspin, an 18yo grime artist & Tik Tokker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ6QMdK96kM

Sophie Aspin! This is not something I would have ever seen coming.

She's all over the new Fryars album (came out Friday).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eess0jhbWRw

I'd love to see her perform...hope she comes to the US sometime.

I just listened to a new interview with Sean O'Hagan and he mentioned he just did the arrangements for her new album in the past year, so I guess there's a new album.

New album out next week. Really not sure what to expect based on the singles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2BTtPtCV-w