It’s Milosh’s voice that really carries this album. Hauntingly intimate but simultaneously coy, he tackles sex and relationships with a beautiful honesty, similar to the early Weeknd mixtapes but a lot less sinister. In a world of over-sexualisation in electronic music, it’s refreshing to hear love and sex tackled in such a way.
The album really goes through the motions, from the swooning strings of ‘Open’ to the ‘morning after the night before’ house music stylings of ‘The Fall’ to the surprisingly poppy ‘Last Dance’, the opening trio manage to effectively set the mood that dominates the rest of the album because, despite the sensual feel of the tracks, Milosh’s vocals continue to be hypnotic, cooing and ahhing through his disarmingly honest views of sex and relationships.
Most bands that feel the need to begin with anonymity usually disappoint in the long run, unless they’re someone huge doing a crazy collaboration or someone huge just wanting to piss about for a bit. Here the mystery only made Rhye more endearing and, even better, when the curtain was pulled down to see who The Wizard actually was, it took absolutely nothing away. A stunning debut that warrants the excitement surrounding Rhye.
5/5
Recommended download: 'The Fall'
