RHYE RELEASES NEW SINGLE/VIDEO COME IN CLOSER
NEW ALBUM HOME OUT JANUARY 22 ON LAST GANG RECORDS
“Rhye's upcoming album will be a balm for these upcoming winter months, his soothing vocals wrapping you up in a warm blanket of orchestral touches and seductive movements.” — CBC (21 Canadian albums we can't wait to hear in 2021)
“After last year's piano-focused Spirit, this is his return to smouldering electronic production” — Exclaim! (29 Most Anticipated Canadian Albums of 2021)
"Rhye's music video for 'Beautiful' is a lesson in social distancing . . . The pandemic made Michael Milosh think about his artistic motivations, and he channeled that energy into a calming music video" — Vanity Fair
"[‘Beautiful’] starts with a throb of strings before cohering around a sharp beat and muscular bass line, distantly echoing solo Bryan Ferry tracks from the early Eighties.” — Rolling Stone
“[‘Black Rain’ is] a slinky, lithe track” — Stereogum
“‘Black Rain’ is versatile and intriguing, blending subtle synths, steady beats and Milosh’s lustrous vocals.” — Paste
“‘Helpless’ shows the potential for how fleshed-out and impressive his quarantine output can be.” — Uproxx
Toronto, ON — January 7, 2021 — Rhye, the JUNO Award-winning project of Los Angeles-based, Toronto-born musician, Michael Milosh, releases a new single/video, Come In Closer, from his forthcoming album, Home, out January 22 on Last Gang Records. As presented on previous singles, Black Rain, Beautiful, and Helpless, every element of Homeis intentional and meant to reverberate on a higher extra-sensory plane. This sense of purpose is just as clear on Come In Closer, which unfurls with ambient sounds from a rainstorm that descended upon his home studio in Topanga during tracking. Watch Come In Closer here.
Thematically, Come In Closer presents how “as relationships deepen and you invite someone into your world, your life, your home, layers of appreciation, vulnerability, and patience reveal themselves,” whether it be a romantic relationship as in the song or a relationship between siblings as in the video. Directed by Milosh and Genevieve Medow-Jenkins and filmed in Big Sur, the video presents siblings “living without fear or inhibition, wild with the joy of simply being.”
Since the release of Rhye’s 2013 debut Woman, Milosh mostly lived on the road, playing up to 100 shows a year and decamping in Toronto, Montreal, Thailand, the Netherlands, Germany and Los Angeles. On the heels of some major life changes, including a new relationship with Medow-Jenkins, he yearned for a more permanent space, a balm for the restless spirit and a place to simply be. Home, the follow-up to 2018’s JUNO Award-winning Blood (JUNO nominated for Adult Alternative Album of the Year, JUNO winner of Album Artwork of the Year), is centered around the idea of home as the core of creativity and community. It’s familiar in its synthesis of propulsive beats, orchestral flourishes, piano ruminations and sultry, gender-nonconforming vocals, but never have they sounded more cohesive or alive.
Written throughout 2019 and early 2020, Home was recorded at United Recording Studios, Revival at The Complex (Earth, Wind, & Fire), as well as Milosh’s home studio, and mixed by Alan Moulder (Nine Inch Nails, Interpol, My Bloody Valentine). The album features the Danish National Girls’ Choir, who Rhye performed with at a landmark concert in Denmark in 2017.
Recently, Milosh and SG Lewis collaborated on Time, “an exuberant classically-minded club track” (FADER). It was written at Milosh’s home studio and inspired by a Topanga Canyon sunset.
Watch/listen to Come In Closer
Watch Black Rain
Watch Helpless
Watch Beautiful
DOWNLOAD – Hi-Res Press Photo | DOWNLOAD – Hi-Res Album Art
About Last Gang:
Last Gang is a music company founded in 2003 and credited with launching the careers of Metric, Death From Above 1979, MSTRKRFT and Crystal Castles. The company is also well known for its work with Arkells, Ryan Hemsworth, Purity Ring, Lights, and Chromeo. Last Gang is an Entertainment One company. www.lastgang.com