★★★★★
There's a lot to like in the debut album from pop duo Rhye, but most alluring of all is singer Mike Milosh's remarkable voice. The multi-instrumentalist Toronto native sings in a steady, slightly husky falsetto that sounds as assured as it does vulnerable. It seems to rise and fall in a single note and defies gender categorization. The ambiguity adds a level of intoxicating mystery to the straightforward, wine-and-dine romance of Woman, his debut LP with Danish producer Robin Hannibal...
- nowtoronto.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
There's mysteriousness about Rhye, with little in the way of promo material or info about the musicians on the CD notes. The first presumption you make is completely wrong: that the woman's nape of the neck on the album cover might belong to the same soft, Sade-like vocalist. The singer is actually a dude, Mike Melosh, here making sweet, sexy sounds with Quadron's Robin Hannibal on production duties...
- www.beat.com.au
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Rhye's full-length debut begins as sensually as ends: with luscious strings, soft synthesizers and singer Chris Milosh's androgynous falsetto coos. Woman is replete with soulful harmonies and low-key grooves that caress like sheets of silk against smooth skin. It's some pretty sexy stuff, a fact undiminished by one of the songs ('Open') appearing in a Victoria's Secret commercial...
- www.thelineofbestfit.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Neither a mononym nor a singular woman, Rhye is a promising collaboration between Toronto singer/producer Mike Milosh and Robin Hannibal of Danish electro-soul outfit Quadron. The downy-soft R & B/soul duo--who now reside in Los Angeles--bonded two years ago when Milosh was asked to remix a Quadron tune. The corporeal music on their debut album, Woman, falls in the tradition of candlelit singers such as Anita Baker and Sade...
- filtermagazine.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
Rhye is a jet-setting collaboration, the work of Denmark's Robin Hannibal and Canada's Mike Milosh...
- www.popmatters.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
March 14, 2013
Rhye are Canadian singer-songwriter Michael Milosh and Danish producer-songwriter Robin Hannibal - but you'd be forgiven for thinking their debut was the new Sade LP. Milosh's androgynous voice bears a startling resemblance to that of the lite-soul queen, and he uses it deliciously, unspooling sultry whispers and coos over chill soul-jazz and r&b grooves draped in strings, harps, flutes and flugelhorns...
- www.rollingstone.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
There's a lot to like in the debut album from pop duo Rhye, but most alluring of all is singer Mike Milosh's remarkable voice. The multi-instrumentalist Toronto native sings in a steady, slightly husky falsetto that sounds as assured as it does vulnerable. It seems to rise and fall in a single note and defies gender categorization.
The ambiguity adds a level of intoxicating mystery to the straightforward, wine-and-dine romance of Woman, his debut LP with Danish producer Robin Hannibal...
- www.nowtoronto.com
2013-04-01
★★★★★
When mysterious duo Rhye began posting their music online, comparisons to the likes of Sade and Tracey Thorn led to assumptions that singer was a female. While the band have now revealed themselves as Copenhagen producer Robert Hannibal and Toronto producer/vocalist Mike Milosh, it's an understandable misconception...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2013-04-01
★★★★★
In the musical We Will Rock You , based on the compositions of Queen, "The Seven Seas of Rhye" is where the castigated Bohemians are sent after the evil Khashoggi brainwashes them. The character Scaramouche, a woman, becomes incensed when Galileo, a man, suggests she can't go to "...Rhye" to perform a rescue because of her gender. By the end of the saga, this ends up negligible and Scaramouche becomes the hero and she and Galileo fall in love...
- consequenceofsound.net
2013-04-01