Rae Morris: "The new record is super colourful and energetic"

Blackpool singer-songwriter Rae Morris returns with comeback track 'Reborn', and a batch of UK dates to introduce a whole new sound.

Hey Rae, how are you? New album aside, what’ve you been up to since ‘Unguarded’?

I’m really well thank you! I’ve been hanging out in London mostly, enjoying getting to know the city properly. When I first moved here, it was at a really busy time, and I didn’t have time to just live and exist here. I’ve fallen in love with the city completely now.

You’ve said comeback track ‘Reborn’ is about new beginnings - did you feel like you needed a new start?

It wasn’t that I needed one particularly, but I was watching myself transition naturally into a new place. With time to reflect and think came a change of mindset about certain things. That felt really freeing and good. I’m the type of person that will always keep changing and learning. I don’t believe that you’re ever the perfect finished article. That would be no fun at all.

How do you feel about your debut now you’ve had some distance from it? Has your relationship with it changed over time?

I sometimes forget about certain songs, then remember and revisit them. Some of the earlier ones feel like such a long time ago; the ones that I wrote when I was 17/18. I was really naive and young. I do love that there’s a record of that time of my life. All I really cared about was first love and communicating through emotional outpour which meant that I was pretty unfiltered.