Foxes

The Southampton singer began releasing music as Foxes before her vocal on Zedd's Clarity introduced her to a much larger audience. The collaboration placed a clear, emotionally direct performance at the centre of a large electronic production. Her own debut album, Glorious, followed in 2014, giving that voice a more varied set of surroundings.

Youth, Let Go for Tonight and Holding onto Heaven established a dramatic but accessible sound. The arrangements could lift quickly, yet the singing often carried a note of unease that made the uplift feel earned. Foxes was not simply supplying a large vocal over a beat; the transitions between a more vulnerable line and a confident refrain were central to the songs' shape.

All I Need appeared in 2016, including Body Talk, Better Love and Amazing. Better Love was co-written with Bastille's Dan Smith, one of several collaborators involved in refining the second record. The album kept the directness of the debut while allowing more room for changing emotional states, rather than making every track reach for the same kind of climax.

The Kick arrived through PIAS in 2022, with Sister Ray announcing a brighter dance-pop direction. The music makes movement an answer to difficult feelings without suggesting it can erase them. The distance between the first album and The Kick is partly a difference in framing: the earlier songs often stage the emotional storm, while the later record seems particularly interested in the moment someone chooses to step onto the floor anyway.