The first reviews of RAYE’s new album are already out and, at least, The Guardian’s describes an ambitious album, but “chaotic” and “too loaded with ideas.” This March 27 we will be able to listen to ‘This Music May Contain Hope’, but the third official single is already epic in itself, and not just because it includes a collaboration with Hans Zimmer, no less.
‘Click Clack Symphony’ is one of the songs that RAYE has been presenting live on his last tour, which passed through Barcelona. We didn’t know then that Zimmer had arranged the song, although its orchestral waves are devastating.
Above all, it is surprising to discover that ‘Click Clack Symphony’ is a song closer to the soundtrack, or even the musical, than to the very notion of a traditional pop song, as denoted by those minimal but crucial percussions suggested in the title itself.
An odyssey of more than five minutes, developed through pure suspense and full of spoken word and broken-hearted confessions, which knows two clear peaks: the bridge “Everything is going to be alright” and the tremendous orchestral finale.
It’s there that RAYE pronounces his life motto: “The cold never lasts, baby, it just teaches the heart how to burn.” The video, directed by Dave Meyers, is a succession of epic and surreal scenes, but none is as surreal as the one that accompanies this phrase.
