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CMU Approved
Approved: Rhye
By Aly Barchi | Published on Monday 13 February 2012
Rumour has it that one or both halves of ultra-secretive LA-based duo Rhye are really European, not to mention that they’ve both marked time in other bands. Rumour has a lot of things where Rhye are concerned. Not, based on the serene sounds of first single ‘Open’, that they seem in the slightest bit concerned. One of three tracks featuring on Rhye’s debut EP, out now via Innovative Leisure, it bodes beautifully as a first introduction to an act at ease within their favoured form of orchestral soul-pop collage.
Shades of Sade wax and wane throughout ‘Open’, sounding out in the sweet and yielding timbre of Rhye’s androgynous voicebox (who is, in fact, Canadian electronic artist Mike Milosh) as he implores a lover, as one perhaps would the owner of a post-midnight off licence, to “stay open”. As also set to appear on Rhye’s tbc long player, unwrap ‘Open’ here:
