Album Review: All Yours

Ollie Hussey
Jan 22
3 min read

Debut album from Manchester-based mixed-media artist Aoife Rae

A woman sits on a tree stump in a park wearing a red suit — *Kate Bush's daughter...?*

A project made alongside collaborator and producer Beer Ronte AKA Harvey Whybrow-Parker, Aoife Rae's debut full-length album explores dark musical themes while retaining a beating, dancing heart. Dropped just before Christmas '25, The pair have now released two efforts through their indie label Beer Ronte records. All Yours almost acts as a follow-up to Rae's Are You Satisfied? EP which contains the slightly unpolished ideas found in this new effort.

There is a definite Grace Jones vibe to this project, particularly when the grooves are accompanied by some of Rae's more monotonous vocals in tracks like For The Known. That being said, Aoife’s vocals are beautiful when they're allowed to shine with melody, with lots of spacey phrases that at times evoke images of the Kate Bush lookalike twirling around with stars and strobe lighting surrounding her, perhaps with her consciousness having left her to embark upon the astral plane.

The instrumentation can be unsettling in places but something about Rae's voice sends you into a trance and you become completely invested in the songs. The dirty, industrial percussion and reverb-soaked synths couple with clean production that allows every element of the songs to shine through. It's often difficult with this kind of genre to allow for sonic space and to not fall victim to creating a messy soundscape. This album avoids these pitfalls, even if the vocals could perhaps be moved forward at times just for an extra pop.

The album begins with Heresy, a slow and brooding spoken-word opener with pulsing noises and sharp vocal chops. In a way, it sets the tone for the rest of the record but in others it's an outlier, with less of the poppy fun of some of the other tracks. Get It Together is therefore a bit of a contrast, with a defined verse/chorus/verse structure and a catchy hook. For The Known is again an incredibly addicting listen, with spacey imagery and probably the best chorus on the record. Up next, The Air Is Clear (Breathe In) contains yet another strong vocal hook and some lush synthesised strings that frame a slightly sad-sounding (yet danceable) bop. We particularly enjoy some of the robotic backing vocals on this track that sound like if a Dalek was a regular at Heaven on a Tuesday night. Capricornicopia (great title, btw) then crescendos into being and keeps the club anthem vibe alive, this time happily pulsing along with camp abandon. We are then plunged into the dark and distorted Intermission, reminding us constantly that we should "keep running" because "we're only halfway."

The rest of the album then continues to oscillate between ultra-experimental and pop, with Foraging and Aspects of Emotion foregoing melody and danceability for more spoken word elements, with broken beats, noise and much heavier drums, in the case of Aspects. The final track Mystery (Mystified) manages to bring the dichotomy of the record together and distill it into one five-minute climax. It's light and dark, cheesy and serious, and rounds off the record perfectly.

All Yours is a thoroughly enjoyable romp of a debut album. On Get It Together, Aoife implores us to let her get weird - well, if that’s what you want to call this then be our guest. We’d prefer to call it lots of fun. We were genuinely blown away by the quality of this record and its strange, joyous qualities.

Beer Ronte records are certainly a label to keep an eye on and we will be eagerly awaiting more from Aoife Rae.

Listen to the album here.