Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by Kevin Cole, host of The Afternoon Show on KEXP, is "Red Light" by Tei Shi a 2019 single on Downtown Records.
written by Janice Headley

Colombian-Canadian artist Tei Shi shares another new track from her highly-anticipated sophomore album, a follow-up to 2017’s Crawl Space. Born Valerie Teicher in Buenos Aires, and raised between Bogota and Vancouver, she infuses her music with a silky R&B influence punctuated with her airy, soprano voice. 

Via a press statement, she elaborates:

“Red Light” is about a few different relationships in my past – some romantic, some in the work space – that made me feel helpless and powerless. I spent a lot of time in dynamics with close people in my life who didn’t encourage or empower me but thrived in making me feel small. The song is about learning from these dynamics, earning more respect for myself and knowing better in the future. It’s kind of a diss track, but also on my end it’s about letting go of that frame of mind.

No release date yet on the new album, but it's said it'll be out before the end of the year. 

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