We’re poisoning the falls, the end is near prophesies Rachel Agatha Keen aka Raye in Environmental Anxiety, and the rhythm marches along like a very orderly demonstration against “classist, sexist, racist, ableist, fascist, ageist, homophobic country leaders” .
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In “Ice Cream Man”, on the other hand, the private becomes political, as she describes the rape by a producer. The Brit has something to say and a voice that you absolutely have to listen to. On her debut album MY 21ST CENTURY BLUES she is still looking for the form she wants to give this statement. Sometimes the sequencers flutter in “Black Mascara”, as if Ibiza should be conquered.
The following “Escapism”, on the other hand, stomps like a here-I-am-statement-torch-song. A spartan rhythm defines “Five Star Hotels” and its retro-futurism. Hey Beyoncé, Hey Adele, Hey Robyn, yes, even Hey Aretha! Raye seems to want to say: What you can do, I can do for a long time. But again and again Raye slows down the pace or the conviction, as if she were afraid of being pigeonholed in this or that box. She hasn’t really found hers yet.
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