Hailing from a musical family can be a burden more than a blessing, but Rita Mae, daughter of late Jean-Paul Sartre Experience guitarist Jim Laing, developed her tender songwriting talent at a measured pace, earning admiration from artists like Molly Payton.
On her new EP, Mae is uninhibited, the collection skewing towards Nineties-indebted alternative and grunge, a move that plays as authentic rather than pastiche.
Stream: Rita Mae, Kiss the Sky
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