RAYE has channelled heartbreak into the powerful ballad Nightingale Lane., her first single since the smash hit Where Is My Husband!.
The BRIT Award winner – who will perform at the ceremony in Manchester this Saturday (28.02.26) – has unveiled the newest preview of her upcoming album This Album May Contain Hope, on which she lays bare what she calls “the greatest heartbreak I’ve ever known.”
She belts: “Somebody loved me once/ and someday somebody will again.
“Like the way you loved me/ on Nightingale Lane/ although we never made it/ stranger, you showed me it’s true/ I’m capable of loving someone the way I loved you.”
RAYE described the new album as a “hug” for “that person who needs it”.
Speaking about the record, RAYE said in a statement: “Music is medicine, I’ve always said that. I guess I’m in the process of making medicine for myself that I can share with the world.
“I want us all to say to ourselves that it’s going to be all right, and I’m going to have faith in the seeds that I’ve planted beneath the snow. I wanted to create something that is a hug, bed or soft place for that person who needs it.”
This Music May Contain Hope is scheduled to drop on March 27 – three years after the release of her 2023 debut album My 21st Century Blues, which scored her a number one on the UK Singles Chart with Escapism as well as six BRIT Awards.
RAYE released the first single from the new album, Where Is My Husband!, in September and scored her second number one on the UK Singles Chart.
It comes after RAYE previously admitted her second album could face delays because she lost her lyric books when her car was stolen.
She made the revelation in a post on Instagram to mark her birthday in October 2024, writing: “It’s my birthday and my car got stolen with all my song writing books in the boot so no second album any time soon love you bye.”
However, the motor and her notebooks were returned to her months later after police found the stolen car.
Speaking on The EE Official Big Top 40 in October, she said: “It was a rollercoaster journey, but what I didn’t tell everyone is the police called me maybe two or three months ago, and they were like, ‘We found your car.’
“Not only did I get it back, not one thing had been taken out of the car. All my songwriting books were there, untouched. Everything ended well. Never give up hope.”