--- description: A producer du temps gives the rising siren a spritz of shimmer title: Rae Morris, "Do You Even Know" - Song Review image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Rae Morris Makes Pop That Glows on "Do You Even Know": Listen by [Katherine St. Asaph](/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 2:20 PM CUT by [Katherine St. Asaph](/author/katherine-st-asaph/) ## Katherine St. Asaph Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 7, 2014 2:20 PM CUT Blackpool’s Rae Morris has been jobbing as a singer-songwriter for a couple years now – most recently, on indie-folk act Bombay Bicycle Club’s “Luna” — but her collaborator for her proper debut is sure to give her a boost: L.A.’s Ariel Rechtshaid, who’s become something of a producer du temps (and the recipient of a left-field Grammy nomination) by working with acts as diverse as Charli XCX (_True Romance_), Haim (_Days are Gone_), Sky Ferreira (_Night Time, My Time_), Usher (_Looking 4 Myself_) and Vampire Weekend (_Modern Vampires of the City_). He doesn’t have a signature sound so much as a signature aesthetic — not showy, nor retro exactly, but nostalgic: dizzying, like looking down from a height, or sparkling and distant like a mirage. As writer Mike Powell put it in a recent [Grantland](http://grantland.com/features/ariel-rechtshaid-producer-vampire-weekend-haim-sky-ferreira-snoop-lion-justin-bieber/ "undefined") profile, “\[Rechtshaid\] takes you back to a place you think you’ve been and makes you feel like you’ve never seen it before.” “Do You Even Know,” from an upcoming EP of the same name, is another spritz of Rechtshaid shimmer, and thanks to Morris, possibly the most winsome yet. Her scrunchy voice and earnest lyrics (“Do you even know that I keep everything in? Do you even know me at all?”) will no doubt earn her comparisons to a pre-EDM Ellie Goulding, or maybe a wider-eyed Lorde, but Morris, even more than either, lets herself get lost in the production, sounding both blissed-out and lonely at once. There’s plenty to get lost in, too: expanse after expanse of filtered guitar, celestial piano and strings (the last arranged by classical composer Nico Muhly, who worked with Rechtshaid on Usher’s art-R&B hit “Climax.”) True to Rechtshaid’s form, the track doesn’t feel crowded — or worse, overly precocious — but rather struck by a gorgeous mood. Promising new talents emerge every day, but few have showcases this fitting. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/51620/rae-morris-do-you-even-know/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/51620/rae-morris-do-you-even-know/"},"headline":"Rae Morris Makes Pop That Glows on \"Do You Even Know\": Listen","datePublished":"2014-04-07T14:20:36.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:10:03.769Z","description":"A producer du temps gives the rising siren a spritz of shimmer","url":"https://time.com/51620/rae-morris-do-you-even-know/","keywords":["Music","Pop","pop music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Katherine St. Asaph","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/katherine-st-asaph/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/51620/rae-morris-do-you-even-know/","name":"Rae Morris Makes Pop That Glows on \"Do You Even Know\": Listen"}}]}] ```