Louder, Please (album)

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Louder, Please
Louder, Please - Rose Gray.png
Studio album by
Rose Gray
Released17 January 2025 (2025-01-17)
Genre Dance-pop [1]
Length41:26
Label PIAS
Producer
Rose Gray chronology
Higher Than the Sun
(2023)		Louder, Please
(2025)
Singles from Louder, Please
  1. "Free"
    Released: 10 July 2024
  2. "Angel of Satisfaction"
    Released: 14 August 2024
  3. "Switch"
    Released: 18 September 2024
  4. "Wet & Wild"
    Released: 7 November 2024
  5. "Party People"
    Released: 31 December 2024

Louder, Please is the debut studio album by the English singer Rose Gray, released on 17 January 2025 through PIAS Recordings. She co-wrote the album with a variety of collaborators and producers, including Alex Metric, Sega Bodega, Ryland Blackinton, Vaughn Oliver, and Shawn Wasabi. The album was preceded by the release of five singles between July and December 2024: "Free", "Angel of Satisfaction", "Switch", "Wet & Wild", and "Party People".

Contents

Background and production

Louder, Please was written over the course of two years before being produced, mixed, and mastered in the following six months. [2]

Release and promotion

The lead single from the album, titled "Free", was released on 10 July 2024. [3] It was followed by "Angel of Satisfaction" on 14 August. [4] On 18 September, Gray announced the album's title, Louder, Please, and uploaded its third single "Switch". [5] A fourth single was titled "Wet & Wild" and released on 7 November. [6] "Party People" was released as the fifth and final single from the album on 31 December 2024. [7] NME included Louder, Please on its list of the most anticipated releases of 2025. [8] PIAS Recordings released the album on 17 January 2025.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.4/10 [9]
Metacritic 81/100 [10]
Review scores
SourceRating
Clash 7/10 [11]
Dork 4/5 [12]
The Guardian Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [13]
NME Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [1]

On the review aggregator site Metacritic, which assigns a normalized score out of 100 to ratings from publications, Louder, Please holds a weighted mean of 81 based on 4 critics' reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". [10] AnyDecentMusic? gave the album a score of 7.4 out of 10, based on their assessment of the critical consensus from 6 reviews. [9]

In a review for Dork , Martyn Young wrote that the album "is a sonic journey for head, body and soul to soundtrack all your partying needs for 2025". [12] Michael Cragg of The Guardian believed that hedonism is the main theme on the album and praised the "dance-pop anthems that pierce the heart". [13] Rolling Stone UK included the album on a list of the best releases of the week; its staff said that Gray "cements her place as one of dance music's most exciting new voices", and that the album "could be one of the year's defining dance records". [14] Sydney Brasil of Exclaim! wrote that Gray brings her "own flair to the dance floor" and perceived elements of jungle and house music. [15] NME 's Rishi Shah praised the hooks and melodies, and said that the genres of Gray's previous EPs, house and rave-pop, "pierce even deeper into the underground" on Louder, Please. [1] Aimee Philips of Clash finished her review saying that the album "captures the spirit of the dance floor with unflinching authenticity", although it "doesn’t reinvent the wheel". [11]

Track listing

Louder, Please track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Damn"
Alvarez2:25
2."Free"
  • Gray
  • Kevin Hickey
  • Ella Boh
Zhone3:11
3."Wet & Wild"
  • Gray
  • Sur Back
Sur Back3:02
4."Just Two"
  • Gray
  • DRIIA
  • Joe Brown
  • Alvarez
  • Sur Back
  • Uffie
  • Brown
  • Alvarez
3:22
5."Tectonic"
  • Metric
  • Rob Milton
3:16
6."Party People"
Sega Bodega3:14
7."Angel of Satisfaction"
  • Blackinton
  • Oliver
3:31
8."Switch"
  • Gray
  • Tranter
  • Sam Homaee
Homaee3:00
9."Hackney Wick"
  • Gray
  • Alvarez
  • Sur Back
Alvarez3:50
10."First"
  • Gray
  • Max Wolfgang
  • Frank Colucci
  • Brown
  • Brown
  • Colucci
  • Alvarez
3:08
11."Everything Changes (But I Won't)"
 Shawn Wasabi 3:51
12."Louder, Please"
  • Gray
  • Micah
  • Alvarez
  • Phil Scully
  • Sur Back
Sur Back5:30
Total length:41:26

Personnel

The credits shown below are adapted from Apple Music. [16]

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Rose Gray is an English singer-songwriter. She began releasing music in 2019, releasing numerous singles and a mixtape, Dancing, Drinking, Talking, Thinking (2021), before being signed to PIAS Recordings. With PIAS, Gray has released two extended plays, Syncronicity (2022) and Higher Than the Sun (2023), and her debut album, Louder, Please (2025).

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  5. ↑ Pappis, Konstantinos (19 September 2024). "Rose Gray Announces Debut Album, Shares New Single 'Switch'". Our Culture Mag . Retrieved 23 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Rose Gray has shared her new single 'Wet & Wild', about a crazy night in New York". Dork . 7 November 2024. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
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  8. ↑ "NME's most anticipated album releases of 2025". NME . 8 January 2025. Retrieved 23 January 2025.
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