Rhye Is For Lovers
R&B Star Looks To The Past in "Song For You"
In 2013, Canadian electronic musician Mike Milosh formed a music project with Danish record producer Robin Hannibal called Rhye. It was experimental and mostly featured music in the R&B and Soul genres, while the project released its debut album Woman later that year. Five years later, Rhye put out a follow up titled Blood without Hannibal, who left to focus on producing instead of songwriting and performing.
The newest single from Rhye, “Song For You,” features the intimacy between two lovers, as an intense and personal relationship devolves into separation and loneliness. The song’s music video, directed by Milosh himself and his partner Genevieve Medow-Jenkins, showcases the highs and lows of said close relationships with lyrics like, “I saw your tear fall from your grace/I fell in love/I saw that fear when you showed me that kiss/We fell in love/I’ll play this song for you.”
It stars Nathalie Kelley and Christopher Brochu going from cutesy dancing around in their underwear to fighting in moving cars to finally saying goodbye. With a running time of six minutes, the music video for “Song For You” is a real heartbreaker, while also embracing the risks you take to experience closeness and love.
“I try to capture moments of my life in the songs that I create,” Milosh said about songwriting to CBC Music in 2013. “I take things that, for whatever reason — be it good, bad or sad, have moved me in some way. I wrap them up in sounds that I think are cool and fit what I am trying to say. I try to ride that thin line of mixing technology with some heart and I try not to cloud the original intention of the song. Basically I like pretty things and in turn I am trying to make pretty things.”
Rhye is now on a world tour in support of Blood, which is also now available on Spotify and Apple Music.
