
Cat Burns, Chloe Qisha and Asha Banks will join RAYE at All Points East 2025
Following her six BRIT Award wins, RAYE will headline London's All Points East festival alongside Grammy winners Tyla and Doechii.

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Release date: 27th March 2026
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'Skin & Bones.' is a study in romantic exasperation. Raye builds the track around a simple anatomical inventory, a body reduced to its component parts, none of them the one that matters, and uses it to dismantle the pretence of connection. The song's target is clear: men who want physical intimacy without emotional reciprocity, who cancel plans by text, who propose "dessert at mine" as foreplay, who want everything on their terms. What gives the track its bite is the specificity of the frustration. Raye doesn't rage; she catalogs. Hair done, dress selected, shoes by the door, makeup applied like a renaissance painting, and then a text arrives. The bar, she repeats, is on the floor. She moves between direct address and broader observation, calling out the audacity of non-exclusive proposals and the greedy arithmetic of wanting to want and need someone, then leave them, then maybe call in a week. The chorus lands hard each time: he thinks he can make love without having to love her. It's a distinction that shouldn't need making, but here it does.
"Skin & Bones." is a track by Raye, from the album THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE., released 27th March 2026. The track is 3:15 long. It's filed under Pop. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Raye.
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Following her six BRIT Award wins, RAYE will headline London's All Points East festival alongside Grammy winners Tyla and Doechii.

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This year's festival takes place from 9th-11th August in Helsinki, Finland.

It's the festival's 25th anniversary event.

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