Raleigh Ritchie Details New Project ‘Andy’

Check out his new single 'Aristocrats'...

Raleigh Ritchie will release new project 'Andy' later this year.

It's now four years since the songwriter released his debut album 'You're A Man Now, Boy', a period in which he has reflected on identity, and how best to express this.

An acclaimed actor – his roles include Game Of Thrones – Raleigh returns to music for new project 'Andy'.

Due out this summer, it's led by 'Aristocrats', a song that seems to pick up on fixations with national identity, the imperial legacy, and the manner in which this impacts on POC in the UK today.

Raleigh states:

“British history is complicated, especially as a POC. And history is everything, it’s what we learn from to help us build our future. In school I didn’t learn much about British history aside from the country’s victories and a version of some of it’s atrocities.”

“Sometimes it’s a confusing place, and although I love my country, I don’t always feel loved by it. With this video I wanted to explore this and my relationship to my own history and the history of those who came before me.”

Check it out now.

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