Ravyn Lenae opens the door to Blue Island with Handle

Ravyn Lenae’s Blue Island is officially on the horizon, with the album set for 7 August via Atlantic, and the new single Handle makes the next chapter feel intentionally open-ended. Rather than staying neatly inside one R&B lane, Lenae leans into a new wave shimmer, giving the song a sleek pulse without losing the vocal personality that made Bird’s Eye and Love Me Not connect so widely. That balance is the interesting part. Lenae is not abandoning the warmth and elegance that define her work; she is stretching the frame around it. Handle arrives with a video directed by Andre Muir and choreography by Akira Uchida, which helps position this as a full visual and sonic reset rather than a loose single dropped into the feed. For indie and alternative pop audiences, Blue Island now becomes one of the summer records to keep marked in red. Lenae sounds like an artist who knows the room has grown bigger, but refuses to let the room decide what she should become. Source: https://pitchfork.com/news/ravyn-lenae-reveals-new-album-blue-island/