Raye has brought some sunshine to these dark November days, with her brand new single, Love of Your Life. Love of Your Life premiered last night (October 6th) and has a prime position on Spotify’s esteemed ‘New Music Friday UK’ playlist.
This latest offering follows Raye teaming up with Kosovar DJ Regard for their dance hit, Secrets. Secrets came out on August 24th and peaked at Number 6 of the Official UK Chart in its first week. Secrets has since become widely popular amongst some of Europe’s best DJs, and has been remixed by the likes of MOTi, HUGEL, Tom Field Consoul Trainin.
Love of Your Life is a vibrant dance track. The song opens with some simplistic chords via an ethereal organ, that build slowly but surely. Raye tells a story about the whirlwind of emotions that ensue when you fall for someone: “I can be intense, I can be a little obsessed/But I can bet you never think a nightmare/Will ever look better in a dress.”
The track then switches to a funky break down beat, and Rayes’ mighty vocals sour. She sings about her own resistibility “I could make you confused/I could give you something to lose/Imma wake you up in the morning/In the bathroom singing the blues”, enticing the listener.
In accordance with her new release, Raye shared Love of Your Life with her 165,000 YouTube subscribers yesterday. The song’s title glows in an 80s inspired font over Raye’s uplifting, romantic melody.
Raye took to social media to announce the arrival of Love of Your Life. Sharing the song’s striking cover art to Instagram, the post gathered over 15,000 likes and views from excited fans. The post also received some love from fellow artists Jax Jones, Tré Samuels and Joel Corry.
Love of Your Life is the latest addition to a series of sizzling chart singles that Raye has put out over the course of this year. Raye kicked off 2020 with All Of My Love, in which she enlisted the help of talented British rapper, Young Adz.
Following All Of My Love, Raye collaborated with Jax Jones on Tequila, and released two solo tracks, the romantic Natalie Don’t, and now, Love of Your Life. These sporadic sonic Easter eggs are thankfully in preparation for Rayes’ upcoming LP, Euphoric Sad Songs, which is due out on November 20th via Polydor records.
Euphoric Sad Songs will be the first extended play from Raye since her Deezer Sessions (April 21st) and her last solo album, Side Tapes (May 4th 2018). Rayes’ Deezer Sessions can be listened to in full here.
Next year, Raye will perform live for the first time in too long at Sundown Festival. The dance-pop music festival will return to the Norfolk show ground on September 3rd to September 5th, 2021. Other esteemed British artists on the Sundown lineup are Becky Hill, Holy Goof, Fredo and Example. Tickets for Sundown 2021 can be found here.
Love of Your Life is out everywhere now. The tracklisting for Euphoric Sad Songs will go as follows:
Love Me Again
Change Your Mind
Regardless
Secrets by Regard & Raye
Natalie Don’t
All Dressed Up
Please Don’t Touch
Walk On By
Love of Your Life
Secrets (Original Version)
