Someone out there

"Although Rae Morris released her 2014 debut to a generally warm reception, she seemed to step back into the shadows and fall off the radar in the years that followed. Yet she returns here sounding reinvigorated, brighter, and more optimistic, without losing any of the emotional resonance or left-field influences that distinguish her from her peers ... She radiates genuine personality, and her second full-length demonstrates just how well she can bend pop structures to her will and sound fantastic in the process".

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"Morris's debut album, 2015's Unguarded, often felt soggy with piano and heavyweight drama. Happily, that frustrated songwriter has been dismissed on Someone Out There for limber electropop that foregrounds Morris's brilliant voice. It's hard to think of another pop singer like her right now. Tonally, she recalls Björk, and her delivery is elegantly skittish, but commanding, too".

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"Without precedent, Morris is now making music that dives into the unknown, pop that snaps and crackles and isn't afraid to be strange or awkward. Most importantly, she's not taking risks just to prove a point: for every daring leap into the unknown, there's a payoff ... Unless Wayne Rooney rediscovers his form, comes out of retirement and lifts England to World Cup glory, you'd be hard-pressed to find a more notable step up in 2018".

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