Raissa Releases Path EP – A Gorgeously Chaotic Journey Into the Body, the Beat, and Beyond

Raissa Releases Path EP – A Gorgeously Chaotic Journey Into the Body, the Beat, and Beyond

London-raised, LA-based pop shapeshifter Raissa just dropped her brand-new EP, Desire Path—and it’s a cinematic, multilingual mosaic of pain, pleasure, and pop euphoria. Out now via Neon Gold Records and Virgin, the four-track project is an emotional rave dreamscape for anyone who’s ever healed themselves by dancing with ghosts.

Anchoring the EP is the radiant standout, “Heaven Is A Dancefloor”, a bittersweet club hymn Raissa calls “an anthem of aspiration… made to move you.” The song’s visualizer (out now here) is just as hypnotic, pairing softness with strength in a way that’s very Raissa: self-aware, body-forward, and painfully honest.

Also on the record is the bilingual banger “MANZANA”, a glossy Spanish-language heater co-written with longtime collaborator Evan Voytas, and “GUAPA”, a track that lives somewhere between underground reggaetón and indie sleaze. For the romantics who like their heartbreak cinematic and slow-burning, there’s also “DO U RIDE”: a track that doesn’t just ask the question, but aches with it. Oh, and nearly all her music videos features a three video split screen which is really cool. 

Desire Path isn’t just a collection of songs—it’s a thesis on following your instincts. “Right now, my philosophy is about being led by desire,” Raissa explains. “Trusting the wisdom of the body over the noise of the mind.”

Raissa’s pop is shapeshifting by nature: tender but tough, chaotic but elegant. She’s a creative nomad in every sense, born in Spain, raised across continents (Beijing, Sydney, KL, London), and now calling LA home. Her sound draws as much from early-2000s hip-hop and 80s art-pop as it does from anime and Gothic lit. It’s not manufactured, it’s a mixtape of lived experiences, sung in English, Spanish, and French, with that rare kind of vulnerability that never feels performative.

This new EP follows last year’s Cute Threat, a fever-dream debut that featured “No Genius” with Rahim Redcar—better known to many as Christine and the Queens. The track was a cathartic, beat-heavy spiral of frustration and fierce self-worth, and it cemented Raissa’s status as a future-pop storyteller to watch.

She’s already got co-signs from Mark Ronson, Mura Masa, and Christine and the Queens. And with Desire Path, she’s carved her own glowing trail deeper into the forest of alt-pop.

Each track arrives with its own visualizer, raw, intimate, and aesthetically on-point. Start with “Heaven Is A Dancefloor” or explore them all here.

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