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Tyler Ostermayer, Weal Writer
The Sea,
Corinne Bailey Rae
Like waves moving back and forth on a beach of white sand, so moves the music of Corrine Bailey Rae’s sophomore album The Sea. The title could not be more appropriate.
Each song rises and falls with the subtlety of calm waters dancing across countless grains of sand, and then erupts into giant swells like waves wrestling a rocky shore, telling of heartache mourning and loss.
Rae has every right to explore mourning and loss through her music. Where most artists these days capitalize on “the one who got away,” Rae sings about “the one who passed away.”
Rae’s husband Jason, an accomplished saxophonist, died of a suspected drug overdoes in the early months of 2008. She hauntingly sings of his death on the album’s second track, ‘I’d Do It All Again.’
“It outruns all of the sadness, it’s terrifying light to the darkness. I’d do it all again.”
Rae sings as though she holds more value on tone of voice than pronunciation of words. It’s a style that works well with her minimalist approach to writing.
At times her smooth and slightly slurred vocals sound as though they are an instrument weaved into the music, rather than an actual person singing into a microphone.
Comparably speaking, Rae sounds like a cross between Fiest, and Lauryn Hill, with a twist of The Beatles. Fans of all three examples will undoubtedly enjoy this record.