Ashe's Sophomore Album "Rae" Shines Bright On October 14th
Today, California-based, RIAA Platinum-certified singer-songwriter Ashe revealed the October 14th release date of her highly-anticipated forthcoming sophomore album Rae via Mom+Pop Music.
“Since my debut is called Ashlyn and Rae is my middle name, it seemed like the only name for my sophomore album,” she smiles. “I’ve inevitably created a trilogy. Rae reminds me of California sunshine, but it also has a Western grit. Every day, you’re in the middle of your life from being born to dying. I’m in the middle of my life. Rae marks the next era.”
Rae kicks off with first single, “Another Man’s Jeans”, which cuts right to the chase in conversation with an ex. Wild guitar licks wrap around handclaps as horns pipe up in the background before she declares, “I don’t want to talk about the fights in your mustang, let’s just think about the nights drinking rosé-colored champagne.”
Elsewhere, she is joined by her life-long hero and fashion icon, Diane Keaton for the beautiful and soothing “Love Is Letting Go”, her dusky delivery coasts over embers of acoustic guitar and a soft beat on “Hope You’re Not Happy.” Ominous percussion simmers, she takes aim at prehistoric industry sexism on “Angry Woman.” With its psychedelic Floyd-inspired title, “Shower With My Clothes On” bottles anxiety inside of minor chords and a dynamic delivery. The upbeat piano, buoyant tambourine and seventies-style groove of “omw” embodies her confidence. Rae concludes on “Fun While It Lasted.” Written on a slightly out of tune piano in Big Bear, California, she ponders the end of the previous chapter and the beginning of the next.
Ashe speaks on her latest album’s themes “'Rae,' the sophomore era, my middle name - it only seemed fitting. It’s liberation and confidence and sex and fun. If album’s are snapshots of artist’s lives at a certain time, this is a snapshot of mine-- young and alive and free, uninhibited and incredibly sure of who I am.”
She continues, “There are moments of unmitigated passion and tears but the overarching theme of 'Rae' is summer sweat, windows down, tits out freedom. May all who listen be inspired to be unapologetically themselves.”
The album’s sound captures the energy and raw emotion that comes with a young adult’s experience today, “ It’s danceable and cry-able; it’s cry-able while you’re dancing.”
Ashe’s breakthrough debut, Ashlyn spawned multiple global hits, including “Moral Of The Story” and “Till Forever Falls Apart” - with FINNEAS - which was named one of the best songs of 2021 by the Los Angeles Times and surpassed 145 million streams on Spotify. Her meteoric rise includes amassing over 1.8 billion streams, 230 million video views, 8.9 million monthly Spotify listeners and a 4 million combined social media reach.
The Is It Me Or Is It Hot Tour will kick off on November 4 in Auckland before heading across the ditch to Brisbane, Sydney and concluding in Melbourne on November 9. www.ashe-music.com/tour.
