The Sea

R&B / Soul · 2010 · 12 tracks · 50m

The Sea

Corinne Bailey Rae

A profound, mercury-dark exploration of grief. Shifting from sun-drenched pop to tidal soul-rock, it captures the weight of loss with startling, raw intimacy.

January 20, 2010 · Virgin

A heavy, salt-water melancholy that slowly transforms into a resilient, quiet strength.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks · 50m

01

Are You Here

4:13

02

I’d Do It All Again

3:08

03

Feels Like the First Time

3:13

04

The Blackest Lily

3:38

06

Love’s on Its Way

3:55

07

I Would Like to Call It Beauty

4:19

08

Paris Nights/New York Mornings

3:51

09

Paper Dolls

3:20

10

Diving for Hearts

4:51

11

The Sea

4:05

12

Little Wing

4:06

13

It Be's That Way Sometime

3:28

Moments Worth Listening For

The sudden eruption of distorted electric guitar on Are You Here that shatters the artist's previous polite image

The devastatingly fragile vocal break in I'd Do It All Again where the breathiness sounds like a physical ache

The way the percussion on The Sea mimics the rhythmic, indifferent crashing of waves against a pier

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Where This Album Departs

How does The Sea sound next to the rest of Corinne Bailey Rae's catalogue?

Melancholic+4.0σ

Melancholic saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.

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