RAYE debuts long-awaited second album This Music May Contain Hope

Four-time Grammy Award-nominated global superstar RAYE has released his highly anticipated sophomore album, This music may contain hope.available now on all streaming platforms via Human Re Sources. The release follows a show-stopping performance at the iHeartRadio Music Awards, where she performed her top 10 pop radio hit “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” and presented the Pop Album of the Year award to Taylor Swift.

RAYE talks about the album: “Music is medicine, I’ve always said that. I guess I’m making medicine for myself that I can share with the world. I want us all to tell ourselves that it’s going to be okay, and I’m going to believe in the seeds that I’ve planted under the snow. I wanted to create a hug for that person or that they need.”

This music may contain hope. is an ambitious and deeply personal opus that finds RAYE at his most fearless and emotionally expansive. Mixing pop, R&B, jazz, big band, soul and orchestral influences, the 17-track album takes place over four “seasons”, with each side of the vinyl representing a different chapter in a sonic journey that moves from darkness to light. It transforms heartbreak, self-doubt and personal anxiety into a cinematic exploration of resilience and renewal, balancing moments of darkness with an undercurrent of defiant optimism.

The album includes the UK number one, RIAA Platinum certified hit “WHERE IS MY HUSBAND!” alongside previously released singles including the soaring ballad ‘Nightingale Lane’. and “Click Clack Symphony.”, the latter created with Hans Zimmer and accompanied by a cinematic music video directed by Dave Meyers. Additional contributions come from Al Green, London Symphony Orchestra, Flames Collective Choir and RAYE’s sisters Amma and Absolutely, with co-production from Mike Sabath, Tom Richards, Chris Hill, Pete Clements, Jordan Riley and Punctual.

RAYE have spent the last two months lighting up venues across Europe and the UK on their 51st date. THIS TOUR MAY INCLUDE NEW MUSIC, alongside her sisters Amma and Absolutely, including six nights at London’s The O2. Next week she heads to North America for a sold-out run, with shows at Radio City Music Hall on April 15th and 16th and the Greek Theater on May 12th and 13th. She will also join Bruno Mars as a special guest on The Romantic Tour this summer, appearing on 26 stadium dates across North America.

Since 2014, RAYE has charted 20 UK Top 40 singles and surpassed 10 billion cumulative streams. In 2024, she made history by winning six BRIT Awards including Album of the Year, the most ever won in a single year, along with an Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year and the Ivors Academy’s special Songwriter Advocate Award. Most recently, she was honored with the Recording Academy’s Harry Belafonte Best Song For Social Change CEO Merit Award for “Ice Cream Man.”, which amplifies the voices of sexual abuse survivors.

This music may contain hope. is out now everywhere.

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