• “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.” but you’ve got to work for it | The Badger Herald
Heartbreak and disappointment may be promised to us in life, but for RAYE, who finds herself hitting rock bottom in red Manolo heels, glitzy melodrama can propel you from despair to hope. In her second studio album, “THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.,” RAYE prances through jazz, R&B, orchestral pop, synthpop and even electropop across 17...

• Raye tops album charts with This Music May Contain Hope | BBC News
It is Raye's second number one this year, after her hugely popular single Where The Hell Is My Husband.

• RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. | The Needle Drop | April 3, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. is riddled with musical and conceptual speed bumps.

• RAYE: THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. | Pitchfork
Read Boutayna Chokrane’s review of the album.

• RAYE apologises to fans who bought her new album on vinyl as it's not the final mix | NME | April 2, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
RAYE has apologised to fans who have bought her new album 'THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE' on vinyl as it's not the final mix.

• REVIEW: 'This Music May Contain Hope' is RAYE's roaring triumph | CULTR | April 6, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
The second studio album from British singer-songwriter RAYE is proof the 'second album syndrome' doesn't apply to artists of this calibre.

• “This Music May Contain Hope” convinced me that hope is still out there | The Miami Student
At the end of January, London-based singer-songwriter Raye announced the release of her second album, “This Music May Contain Hope,” and I have been eagerly awaiting its arrival ever since. Within a few minutes of its release on March 27, I sat down and listened to what would become one of the best albums I have heard in the past year.

• Raye’s ‘THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.’ Is Cinematic Pop That Dazzles and Delivers | Atwood Magazine | April 8, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
Raye returns with a cinematic masterclass in hope, heartbreak, and big-band bravado; her sophomore album ‘THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.’ turns personal turmoil into pop theatre for the modern age.

• “This Music May Contain Hope” convinced me that hope is still out there | The Miami Student
At the end of January, London-based singer-songwriter Raye announced the release of her second album, “This Music May Contain Hope,” and I have been eagerly awaiting its arrival ever since. Within a few minutes of its release on March 27, I sat down and listened to what would become one of the best albums I have heard in the past year.

• “This Music May Contain Hope” convinced me that hope is still out there | The Miami Student
At the end of January, London-based singer-songwriter Raye announced the release of her second album, “This Music May Contain Hope,” and I have been eagerly awaiting its arrival ever since. Within a few minutes of its release on March 27, I sat down and listened to what would become one of the best albums I have heard in the past year.

• RAYE - THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. Review | Still Listening
RAYE’s ambitious second act reaches for emotional grandeur, sometimes a little too eagerly. After the success of My 21st Century Blues , RAYE could easily have leaned further into the jazz-tinged soul and confessional songwriting that made her one of the UK’s most compelling pop voices. Instead,

• RAYE’s New Album Tells How Faith in God Pulled Her Out of Darkness | RELEVANT | April 1, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
RAYE isn’t being subtle on THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. The 28-year-old British singer's new album, which dropped March 27, is filled with songs that

• ‘THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE.’: RAYE offers anecdotal realism with piercing heartbreak | The Emory Wheel | April 1, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
On her second studio album, the artist relishes heartache and optimism in a grand display of love and loss. 

• This Review ‘May Contain Hope’ | The Loyola Phoenix | Loyola Phoenix | April 1, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
RAYE's shining new album finds the light in the darkness.

• “This Music May Contain Hope.” RAYE released one of the best albums we’ve listened to in a long time! | The Sound * with Nick Zois | March 31, 2026, 5:50 a.m.
With an album cover that seems like an extract scene from the film “The Truman Show”, I think that RAYE’s second album is the biggest hope in the whole music industry at the momen…

• Raye Goes for Broke on the Wildly Ambitious 'This Music May Contain Hope' | Rolling Stone | March 27, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
Album review: British sensation Raye delivers an epic statement on 'This Music May Contain Hope.'

• RAYE – THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE - FEMMUSIC Magazine | FEMMUSIC.com | March 27, 2026, 4 a.m.
Four-time GRAMMY Award nominee RAYE today releases her sophomore album, THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE, via Human Re Sources.

• RAYE — THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. | Northern Transmissions | March 27, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. by RAYE album review by Sam Franzini for Northern Transmissions. The LP is out today via HUMAN RE SOURCES

• RAYE – ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ review: showstopping musical maximalism at its grandest | NME | March 27, 2026, 8 a.m.
RAYE's second album ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ can be a lot to take in, but her unrestrained, all-in approach is worth the journey.

• Raye 'This Music May Contain Hope' Review: Cinematic Maximalism | Slant Magazine | March 26, 2026, 9:54 p.m.
The album reaffirms the singer’s refusal to be pigeonholed into any one genre.