Rhye shares his new single & video ‘Come In Closer’, new album ‘Home’

Rhye shares his new single & video ‘Come In Closer’, new album ‘Home’ out January 22nd

(Photo Credit: Emma Marie Jenkinson)

Rhye today launches his brilliant new single and video, ‘Come in Closer’, taken from his forthcoming album, ‘Home’, out January 22nd on Loma Vista Recordings.

As presented on previous singles ‘Black Rain’, ‘Beautiful’ and ‘Helpless’, every element of LA-based songwriter and producer Michael Milosh’s new album ‘Home’ is centred around the idea of home as the core of creativity and community. It’s familiar in its synthesis of propulsive beats, orchestral flourishes, piano ruminations and sultry, gender-nonconforming vocals, but never have they sounded more cohesive or alive…

Rhye’s sense of purpose is clear on ‘Come in Closer’, which unfurls with ambient sonics from a rainstorm that descended on his home studio in Topanga during tracking. Thematically, ‘Come in Closer’ presents how “as relationships deepen and you invite someone into your world, your life, your home, layers of appreciation, vulnerability, and patience reveal themselves,” whether it be a romantic relationship as in the song or a relationship between siblings as in the video. Directed by Milosh and Genevieve Medow-Jenkins and shot in Big Sur, the video presents siblings “living without fear or inhibition, wild with the joy of simply being.”

WATCH THE VIDEO FOR ‘COME IN CLOSER’ HERE

‘Come In Closer’ still

Since the release of Rhye’s seminal 2013 debut ‘Woman’, Milosh mostly lived on the road, playing up to one hundred shows a year and decamping in Toronto, Montreal, Thailand, the Netherlands, Germany and Los Angeles. On the heels of some major life changes, including a new relationship with Genevieve Medow-Jenkins, he yearned for a more permanent space, a balm for the restless spirit and a place to simply be.

This has evolved into a series of live events called Secular Sabbath, centered on consciousness-raising ambient music, meditation, and community (recently broadcast from the couple’s actual home throughout the pandemic). Acting as a space for Milosh’s improvisational experimentation with voice and sound, Secular Sabbath in turn inspired much of the work on this new Rhye record, creating a fluid correlation between music and home.

‘Home’ was previewed earlier this year by ‘Helpless’, which relayed love in its most intimate and romantic form over slinky R&B pulses, plus the acclaimed single ‘Beautiful’. ‘My Heart Bleeds’, the last song written for the album, speaks to the collective pain of 2020, with the record at large allowing Milosh – a gear head with a carefully-curated arsenal of sonic references – to show an attention to detail that is prominent on moments like ‘Black Rain’. Here are ideas Rhye has honed since childhood, when he studied cello under his father. “My dad, a really sweet, gentle and inclusive guy, was into this idea of feeling something through playing just one note without a melody, that exchange of energy.

We would talk about how music doesn’t mean anything if you can’t make the listener feel it.” Suitably every element of ‘Home’ is intentional and meant to reverberate on a higher extra-sensory plane. ‘Home’ is bookended by celestial cantos sung by the Danish National Girls’ Choir, who Rhye performed with at a landmark concert in Denmark in 2017.

The choir flew to LA to record with him for one day. It’s reflective of Rhye’s own experiences singing in choir as a boy, his entry point to the path that has informed his distinctive vocals.

“I’m always trying to always accomplish musical goals that are connected to the way I listened to and interact with music as a child,” Milosh says. The sentiment also underscores a broader, less obvious, but no less important theme echoed through his new record: No matter where life takes us, we can always go home.

Home Tracklist:

01. Intro

02. Come in Closer

03. Beautiful

04. Safeword

05. Hold You Down

06. I Need a Lover

07. Helpless

08. Black Rain

09. Sweetest Revenge

10. My Heart Bleeds

11. Fire12. Holy13. Outro

‘Home’ Cover Artwork

Watch ‘Come In Closer’ HERE / Listen HERE

Watch ‘Black Rain’ HERE

Pre-order ‘Home’ HERE

Watch ‘Helpless’ HERE

Watch ‘Beautiful’ HERE

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