Cut & Rewind’s title track starts with a simple funk groove with clean guitar and steady rhythm until the high harmonies blast in like sunlight through the blinds and you realise Say She She are aiming for something massive.

With lyrics taking aim at misogyny and self-doubt with effortless poise, Cut & Rewind is a record about glamour and empowerment with joy worn as armour. An absolute disco extravaganza, this is a record rooted in the real instruments and real musicianship of the late-’70s. The grooves glitter and glow with live keys, strings, guitars and drums, every warm harmony from three women who’s voices blend into one radiant whole.

Cut & Rewind is faithful to the sound of disco in a way that almost no other modern act dares to be. You can hear the lineage of Nile Rogers in every tight, precise guitar lick, and Say She She are extending that conversation, reaching back to the source and making it feel relevant again. Under The Sun lives up to its title, full of bright, breezy warmth, whilst Disco Life is pure Chic worship.

Say She She strike an extraordinary balance between polish and soul. These are immaculate arrangements, but the record has a looseness that breathes, resisting an overly studio-crafted sterility. On Possibilities the reverb of the guitar and the vocal opens the song into a cosmic slow jam built for ballroom longing, a reminder of when dancefloors were romantic spaces rather than arenas for aggression. Even at its slowest the music invites you to move, and Take It All continues that elegant thread, drenched in reverb.

The interplay between Piya Milak, Sabrina Cunningham, and Nya Gazelle Brown is magic, so tight that it’s impossible to tell who’s singing what. Rather than three soloists taking turn, they work in collective service of something beautiful, the antithesis of modern pop’s competition for spotlight.

The record moves between moods with intelligence. She Who Dares drips with cool sophistication, Shot Boy kicks into a 1960s soul-pop tempo, and Do All Things With Love slows and deepens the pace with a deep, mahogany clavichord, transforming a disco trope into a life philosophy of devotion not to a lover, but to your craft and living with heart. The closer Make It Known is one last glorious burst of rhythm and light, and the entire record sidesteps every pitfall that usually dogs a disco revival. It’s far too classy, musically astute, and emotionally genuine to feel inauthentic or ironic. Without a plug-in or sample in sight, Cut & Rewind reminds us what groove actually is, with substance beneath the shimmer. It’s an instant classic about female empowerment, self-belief, and reclaiming joy that radiates confidence through every harmony, and belongs right at the centre of modern music.