The double-sided single “Messed Up”, backed by “Stay With Me”, demonstrates the lasting power of the many distinguished R&B traditions in the modern music idiom, and places singer-songwriter, August Rayne, within them. Each of these songs displays a rich timbre that sets August alongside divas of the past. Hailing from Little Rock, Arkansas, she grew up singing in the church choir, and this single is without doubt a show of her pedigree. Old-school R&B virtues are valorized in a modern...
