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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Entertainment
Jordan Page

Rose Gray at Colour Factory: pleasure-first dance-pop at its best

It’s the hottest day of 2025 so far, and for the first time in a long time, London feels alive. The sky is clear, people are cracking open brightly coloured tins of G&T and Cosmopolitan on their Overground commutes and some, believe it or not, are even wearing shorts.

The excitement, buzz and wonder that fills the air when London is treated to a rare glimpse of sunshine is the same force that powers the fizzy, club-fronted dance pop of Rose Gray’s debut album, Louder, Please.

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