Randomly discovered this track by a relatively unknown singer named Robert Raimon Roy. His track “Axela” is a play on the name “Alexa” — as in, he was expecting to meet someone named Alexa, and instead, is met by her by the true her. Makes sense?

We make expectations in this day and age of computer love, for example. Once you meet in person, however, things are what you’d imagined they’d be. Not bad, not wrong, but different from the image that we may have conjured in our heads.

The visual is a great match after you’ve found an explanation for the song itself. The video premiered on this site here and also had an explanation from the artist himself:

“The song is about projecting the woman within on the woman without,” Roy writes in an email. “In this scenario, a real girl named Alexa becomes the illusory presence ‘Axela.’”

The song’s haunting melody, lean instrumentation, and thick harmonies are immediately captivating in my opinion. Roy offers a darker take on R&B/soul, in the vein of a Frank Ocean, but offers much more along the lines of vocal capability with his falsetto, a la Justin Timberlake. It’s the weird congregation of two types of the two mainstream types of “R&B” that seems to grab most of the public’s attention these days.

It’s a great song that stands alone. Apparently Roy doesn’t like to be confined to more than one genre or style, after taking a listen to his most recent album Le Tigre Blanc, but this song alone is great and I’m glad to have found it. Check out his site here. Thoughts?

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