Raye Announces New Single ‘Genesis’: Watch Clip
Raye has announced her new single, the seven-minute long Genesis, will be released this Friday (7 June) and is available to pre-order as a 7″ single now. She also shared a clip of the single’s video on her Instagram, watch below.
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On Monday night (3 June), the singer hosted an event called The Genesis Exhibition at the Conrad New York Hotel Downtown, New York City, where she performed the piece four times. “Good evening, welcome to the Genesis Exhibition, which is basically a fancy way to say we are going to sing you a song from Genesis,” Raye said before performing the song. “This is a seven-minute piece of music that I’m so proud of and I worked so hard on. We are going to sing it for you now. This might be the shortest concert of your life.”
Raye also announced the single on her Instagram posting, “It kind of hurts a bit to call this piece of music a ‘single’ because it is so much more than just a song to me. This song is a 7 minute labour of love I have been working on since 2022, I have chipped away at, scrutinised, replaced, redone, passionately sculpted this song to become what you will hear in 7 days.”
She continued: “There is a Nina Simone quote which is everything to me, ‘it is an artists duty to reflect the times’ and the best way I believe I can try to do this is through my art, and I have tried my utmost to do so inside this song. Inside my dear ‘Genesis’.”
Raye recently won the Ivor Novello award for Songwriter of the Year just one year after the release of her long-awaited debut album My 21st Century Blues.