RAYE with her #1 plaque! 😭🥹

It’s what she deserves 😭😭👏

Amazing! Hope it holds up well too

A week on and I feel like this is one of those albums what people are either going to fully appreciate or not. It’s something what only really works as an album when you hear it in order as a whole album as just hearing a handful of tracks or playing the album on shuffle you don’t get what she’s trying to do.

I’m in the category of I personally love this and get what she’s doing but I equally see why some people aren’t keen.

Lifeboat, I Know You’re Hurting and Goodbye Henry are my absolute standouts but nothing bar FIN doesn’t have replay value.

I enjoyed this a lot, very good theatrical pop and building on the promise that her singles have done for me into a very nice thinking listen.

I agree it mainly works as listened as a whole album, and as such I will offer a defense of Fin., I genuinely enjoyed listening to her reeling off names as the album closed out, I expected it to be a tad boring but it got a little hypnotic with the backing. It would only work as a coda after you've listened to the whole album, and I won't listen to it outside of that, but as it is it offers you a moment to really contemplate how much work goes into making a popular album, and as much as the rest of the album is about showing off Raye's artistry as the frontwoman, that she takes the time to shout out everyone who was also important to making the project, that there wouldn't be an album without, it's a great egalitarian and levelling moment in a world that's inevitably about popstars and the slightly problematic process of elevating one person above others. Or in other words, I think it's a sweet and humbling moment that makes me think very well of her for putting in.

Besides that, barely a track I didn't enjoy overall, Click Clack Symphony, Life Boat, Joy, I Know You're Hurting, the sweet interlude in Fields and the wonderful opening of I Will Overcome, this hits my theatrical bones very well, I'm glad to see it get success.

The album is outstanding. Truly mesmerizing and haunting. I've been obsessed. I've already streamed it over 1,000 times.