Artist's albums
Bruises
2022 · EP
Bruises
2022 · single
Shadows
2021 · single
Live at Metropolis Studios
2021 · single
What We Call Life
2021 · album
Unguarded
2021 · single
Clouds
2021 · single
Send My Love
2021 · single
Family (Acoustic)
2021 · single
Family
2021 · single
Late Night Tales: Jordan Rakei
2021 · album
Late Night Tales: Jordan Rakei (LNT Mix)
2021 · album
Count a Heart
2021 · single
Imagination
2021 · single
Lover, You Should've Come Over
2021 · single
Wind Parade
2020 · single
Please Don't Make Me Cry (Jordan Rakei Remix)
2020 · single
What Kinda Music (Jordan Rakei Remix)
2020 · single
Origin (Deluxe Edition)
2020 · album
Best Part (BBC Maida Vale Session)
2020 · single
Signs
2020 · single
Ottolenghi
2018 · single
Eye To Eye
2018 · single
Wallflower (Dan Kye Edit)
2017 · single
Spotify Live
2017 · EP
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Biography
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, producer, and songwriter Jordan Rakei is back with his fourth studio album, ‘What We Call Life’, released via Ninja Tune on 17th September. What We Call Life is Jordan Rakei’s most vulnerable and intimate album to date. Its lyrics concern the lessons that the New Zealand-born, Australia-raised, and London-based artist learned about himself during therapy, a journey that began two years ago when he started reading about the ‘positive psychology' movement. These themes manifest on songs like lead single “Family”, which Rakei says is “the most personal” he’s ever been with his lyrics. “I wanted to hit my vulnerability barrier and be really honest. It’s about my parents’ divorce in my mid-teens but still having love for them no matter what,” he explains. With so many artists being influenced by his style, it would be very easy for Jordan to stay in the same musical lane; but, as in life, he is determined to move his music forward. Such introspective subjects are a departure from Rakei’s last album, 2019’s ‘Origin’. Raising big questions about the way that technology and social media interferes with our sense of humanity, ‘Origin’ received praise from The Observer, Mixmag, Complex, and GQ, earned an unexpected shout-out from Elton John, led to a collaboration with rap legend Common, and saw Rakei give a show-stopping performance for NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series.