‘It’s confessional film music, new age noir. The song lyrics were inspired by three lovers, the one who left, the one I didn’t want to leave and the one who wouldn’t leave. In the end, it was mainly about one.’
That’s kind of how it goes, isn’t it — going into something with one intention, but the real gooey heart makes itself very apparent and ruins the plan, even when it was a very good plan.
Nuha Ruby Ra’s “Erase Me” is a lead into her debut EP, which will come out later this year. It comes along with a video that illuminates her faintly in reds and blues against darkness while she sings, “the feeling when you finally leave, it’s so heavy.” The song’s made up of heavy textures, like the pizzicato string sounds that are more likely a piano and guitar, the dissonant-vibrate-y-strung-out layering in the bass end, and the moments where she pushes her voice to a growl. It’s heavy subject matter made up of heavy materials, but the way she moves so fluidly, and the way the song as a whole floats through your psyche (granted, kind of like a nightmare) make it ultimately peaceful. There’s a mixed feeling of calmness at the end of a struggle, and this song takes you backwards through the hard parts.
She moved away from bedroom recordings and into vintage synth cave of the Psychedelic Furs. “Erase Me” was produced by Tony Visconti protégé Erin Tonkin (David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’) and mastered by Pete Maher (Patti Smith, Lana Del Ray), so if you needed another reason to watch the video below, there you have it.
Follow Nuha Ruby Ra here, here, here, and listen here. “Erase Me” out now, debut EP to follow this year.