![]() As a vocalist, Rae’s restraint is far more powerful than any over-emoting belter on the pop circuit, her liquid-soft vocals washing over you like a light spring rain, bringing new life-even in the wake of the darkest winter. She dishes out some funky pop-rock, flirts with a Norah Jones-style singer/songwriter approach, some wistful bossa-soul fusion and subtle trip-hop flourishes-even a string-laden epic that would fit nicely in a lounge scene from a ’60s Bond flick. ![]() The record is refreshingly eclectic, adding several new layers to Rae’s previous blend of classic soul and modern R&B. Listening to The Sea, there’s also a sense of personal and artistic growth-rebirth even. It’s unclear whether Rae’s sophomore album is directly influenced by this tragedy, but the gorgeously arranged tracks do have a tendency toward somber introspection. In 2008-just two years after the British artist’s promising self-titled debut-her husband of seven years, saxophonist Jason Rae (Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Mark Ronson), died of an accidental drug overdose in a Leeds flat. The album was conceived following Bailey Rae's hiatus from music, taken in the wake of her husband Jason Rae's death. It was released on 20 January 2010 by Virgin Records. ![]() The path to Corinne Bailey Rae’s sophomore record was surely a difficult one. The Sea is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae. And don’t you go round with anyone who makes you feel ashamed. So don’t you stand there wishing your life would fade away. That from then on it couldn’t be just like before, it says everything, Changes everything. Rae stays strong on long-awaited sophomore album Verse 1: I never knew you were standing on the shore, It says everything, Explains everything.
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