anaiis Crafts a Quietly Exultant Soundscape of Motherhood and Selflessness on “My World (Beyond)”
They say the heart grows extra rooms when a child arrives; anaiis’s “My World (Beyond)”—the penultimate lantern before Devotion & The Black Divine—throws open the windows and lets dawn walk in. Retro-soul patina and contemporary R&B poise mingle on a cozy tempo: bass and guitar riff with feline confidence, piano keys glint like dew, and the drums move at a cradle’s sway. The effect is immediate—calm, oxygenated, quietly exultant.
Lyrically, anaiis scripts a private cosmology. “Light of the morning” and the French gasp “une avalanche” frame devotion not as spectacle but as daily stamina; the refrain of holding on is less melodrama than promise. When she confesses that her “world revolves / beyond me,” the center shifts decisively from self to child. That pivot gives the chorus its clarity: seeing “in new color” feels like wiping sleep from the cosmos.
Production stays intimate yet meticulous. The low end is warm without fog, guitars comp and curl, and the piano tucks sentences into the seams. Nothing crowds the vocal; air is part of the arrangement. You hear BBC Radio 6’s early support as inevitability, and the coming Radio 1 spin as a natural handoff, because the record breathes at broadcast scale while whispering in your ear.
How will it make you feel? Like stepping out of night into patient daylight: shoulders unclenched, pulse unhurried, gratitude unembarrassed. “My World (Beyond)” doesn’t chase grandeur; it polishes the ordinary until it gleams, a lullaby for grown hearts preparing to love without perimeter. Absolutely luminous.
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