Mackenzie Cummings-Grady Journal Staff
With dubstep and dance music constantly bombarding your ears at parties and on the radio, it’s sometimes nice to sit back and explore a different kind of electronic music.
Woman, the debut album by electronic duo Rhye, is one of the most well-constructed electronic albums of this year, but for different reasons than in the past. The mysterious duo began to generate buzz by releasing erotic music videos on YouTube back in 2012. Referring to themselves only as “Rhye,” they posted one comment on YouTube that said they had come to change electronic music forever.
The confident pair began to blow up as people ached to find out their identities. Their identities remain a secret while Woman is the Editors’ Choice on iTunes, receiving nothing but positive reviews. Each song has a ghostly bass line alongside plucks of violins and quick jazzy strums of guitars, unique instruments that are unusual in the genre. The debut single and opening track “Open” resembles the music of Imogen Heap, Sia, Bon Iver, and Florence + the Machine. The gentle, serenading voice of the lead singer is sure to force any tightly-wound person to let their hair down and relax. “The Fall”, “Last Dance,” and “Major Minor Love” take on a more jazzy appeal while the title track “Woman” and “Verse” are similar to music from The Weeknd.
The album does an amazing job of having many different genres fit into its ten tracks, while still maintaining a unique identity of its own. Rhye is making a statement; who cares who’s behind the art.
