Mura Masa declares new album ‘Curve 1’ with new single ‘FLY’
Mura Masa has introduced his fourth studio album ‘Curve 1’ – hearken to the brand new single ‘FLY’ beneath.
The digital producer, songwriter and DJ is because of launch the follow-up to 2022’s ‘Demon Time’ on Friday August 23 by way of his personal label, Pond Recordings. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.
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The forthcoming assortment is described as a “darkish departure from the pop-leaning narratives” of Mura Masa’s most up-to-date two albums, and can be “offered in a approach that lets listeners make their very own interpretation of its nocturnal roots”.
Talking about LP in a press release, the artist defined: “‘Curve 1’ is in the end a manifestation of an angle I’ve been cultivating in my private life; ignore all the things. All of the content material, the entire consideration financial system, all of it.
“In doing that, the actually significant and important components of what’s round you make themselves identified and unignorable, demanding your vitality.”
The album will mark Mura Masa’s first providing as an impartial artist. He went on to say that he “wished it to be as free and anti-narrative as doable” in addition to “impressionistic”.
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“Music as leisure has in lots of circumstances, to me, change into very advertorial and excessively sentimental when it comes to creating narrative round albums and artists,” he continued.
“I wished to strip this away as a lot as doable to go away room for the music to create its personal that means within the lives of people that type connections with it.”
Mura Masa added: “It’s exhausting for me to not clarify away the intricacies and concepts contained inside these information after having theorised and tolled and executed them over the course of almost three years, however I believe it’s way more becoming of the album’s intent to say merely: hearken to it at midnight.”
Arriving this week, the uplifting-yet-gritty ‘FLY’ is “a tensely vibrant love letter to membership areas [and] membership music”, and captures the “immersive vitality” of ‘Curve 1’ on the entire.
It follows on from the 2024 singles ‘We Are Making Out’ and ‘Nonetheless’, and final yr’s tracks ‘Rise’, ‘Gimme’, ‘Medication’ and ‘Every time I Need’.
Subsequent month will see Mura Masa play a DJ set at Subject Day 2024 in Victoria Park, London. Justice and PinkPantheress are set to headline this yr’s occasion.