43 | Jessie Reyez - Paid in Memories

Republic Records

by Cam Delisle

Jessie Reyez moves through her third studio album Paid in Memories like she’s flipping through a photo album at midnight—some images cut, some luminous. Floating between rap, alt‑rock, and slow neo‑soul, she carries splinters of heartbreak and moments of clarity like loose coins in her pocket. Drifting and stumbling, Reyez lets memory settle in the spaces between sound and voice. By the end, she emerges both exposed and incandescent, a presence shaped as much by what she’s survived as what she’s loved.