Raveena's second album Asha's Awakening (her first for Warners) has proved to be something of a surprise, with the kind of musical innovation that we've come to expect from artists such as FKA Twigs and Kelly Lee Owens, but which is this time coming from the seemingly unassuming personage of "Desi Futurist" Raveena Aurora, a sikh girl born and raised in the US by parents who had fled the 1984 anti-Sikh pograms in Punjab. She grew up listening to R&B, soul, jazz and folk and has been releasing her own music since 2013.
'Rush' is one of the most obviously pop songs on the album, and it could be dismissed at first listen as light and insubstantial, but it's that very lightness that has imbued all of her music that has become a kind of calling card for her. There is a sparseness there, which when coupled with the lightness of her vocal, can feel slight but which, when you listen, belies a level of musical inventiveness that almost creeps up on you. The album is attention grabbing without being showy, and it has a sound that feels at once very 2022 while also unique.
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