Prestige (CD)

Girl Ray, the three-piece comprising Poppy Hankin, Iris McConnell and Sophie Moss.

Co-produced by Grammy Award-winning producer, Ben H. Allen (M.I.A, Gnarls Barkley, Christina Aguilera, Deerhunter) along with the band’s singer and songwriter Poppy Hankin, Prestige takes the shambolic charm of their debut, Earl Grey (2017), and the indiefied R&B of 2019’s Girl, and injects it with a booster shot of Hi-NRG eighties disco pop.

Prestige is the sound of Girl Ray reclaiming disco music as the celebration of sexuality and outsider culture it started out as. Inspired by Pose, the television drama about New York City's queer ballroom scene in the 80s, Prestige is an escape to a fantasy clubland, it’s dancing with your friends, it’s falling in love. In fact, the overarching narrative of Prestige is love: falling in it and being afraid of getting hurt by it; being all alone and longing for it; the tensions between what it is and what you imagined it would be.

Tracklisting:

1. Intro
2. True Love
3. Up
4. Everybody's Saying That
5. Love Is Enough
6. Hold Tight
7. Begging You Now
8. Easy
9. Tell Me 
10. Wanna Dance 
11. Space Song
12. Give Me Your Love