Alt-R&B muse Tora-i is back with sparkling single "Glaze", a glistening serving of introspection that paints the heat, lure, and smog that life throws your way when the sun's rays become that bit too much. Following the praised 2023 offering "& What Else?", Tora-i is stepping into a new creative light, one that radiates with maturity and emotional openness.
"Glaze" feels precisely that warm, golden, and just slightly intoxicating. Created in collaboration with EMIL, who has just worked with Mick Jenkins, the song sees Tora-i counterpoising openness against silky confidence. Her honeyed, eerie voice skims above a bare soundscape that's at once terrestrial and otherworldly.
"Glaze" revolves around "questionable decision making once the sun rears her head" — those knee-jerk reactions where sobriety confounds into a new craving. But instead of shame or regret, Tora-i offers grace. She doesn't condemn that past, but she looks at it in the soft, forgiving light of self-consciousness. The result is a song that unfolds like a late afternoon, warm, wistful, and subtly transformative.
As always, Tora-i's craft resides in dualities, daring but gentle, earthbound yet otherworldly. "Glaze" is all about that idea, a song for sunbathing in the glow, contemplating your own complexity. On "Glaze," Tora-i reasserts her status as one of alt-R&B's most emotionally resounding voices, unafraid to grow, risk, and bask in the sun's lovely, complicated light.
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