Artist: Girl Ray
Album: Prestige
Genre: Indie Rock, Disco
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 41:38
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 469 MB

Tracklist:

1-1. Girl Ray – Intro (00:33)
1-2. Girl Ray – True Love (02:36)
1-3. Girl Ray – Up (03:45)
1-4. Girl Ray – Everybody’s Saying That (03:14)
1-5. Girl Ray – Love Is Enough (03:54)
1-6. Girl Ray – Hold Tight (02:44)
1-7. Girl Ray – Begging You Now (03:28)
1-8. Girl Ray – Easy (02:44)
1-9. Girl Ray – Tell Me (03:57)
1-10. Girl Ray – Wanna Dance (02:48)
1-11. Girl Ray – Space Song (04:06)
1-12. Girl Ray – Give Me Your Love (07:43)

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Arriving in early August, the third album from Girl Ray is a perfect summertime feel-good record. The North London trio takes a new spin on the dance floor, following up the R&B cool of 2019’s Girl with a disco-inflected celebration of love, even the weird things it makes you feel. “True Love” is a sequin-glimmer bop, front loaded with spiky Bananarama bounce. “Everybody’s Saying That” is breezy and modern, with a bridge formulated for throwing shapes and an infectious rushed chorus: “Everybody’s saying that you could’ve done better/ But I really wanna end up with you.” And “Up” cruises along on a disco-funk beat—courtesy of Sophie Moss’ hip-swaying bass and slick guitar from singer Poppy Hankin, who sings of giddy new love undercut with self-doubt. It’s a brooding mood that haunts the album’s shimmering sound: “It feels unreal/ That you’d choose me as your one and only/ Tell me baby/ Safe in your arms/ Am I worthy of your charms?” “Love Is Enough,” about missing a lover while away from home, channels summer-in-the-city heat and Luscious Jackson cool. “Begging You Now” chills out with icy synth squiggles, while “Wanna Dance”—leaning into the wah-wah—takes its sweet time. “Tell Me” boasts an oil-slick groove and sweeping diva-drama chorus, ready made for a roller disco afternoon. And “Hold Tight” gets incredibly romantic: “Your light is as warm as the sunshine/ Blazing down on the twist of our grapevine/ Talking shit in the grass would be just fine, my baby.” It’s a New Wave island kiss with a thudding ATL hip-hop drum beat that wouldn’t be out of place on a Haim record; in fact, Hankin has said the song’s production takes inspiration from that trio’s Women in Music Pt. III. You can hear a little Haim, too, on the almost-ballad “Space Song,” which could easily be used to track an emotional-climax movie scene: offering a sonic clue that the main character has learned their lesson and is resolved to make a course correction. Maybe about love? – Shelly Ridenour