- 2024-08-28
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MUSIC
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Mura Masa Releases New Album “Curve 1”
British electronic music producer Mura Masa released his fourth studio album “Curve 1” on August 23, 2024.
The album is his first LP in two years since the 2022 album “Demon Time”.
Also, this marks the first release as an independent artist via his own label Pond Recordings.
The album comprises a 10-track, featuring collaborations with Singaporean songwriter-songwriter yeule, New York-based singer-songwriter Daniela Lalita, Atlanta-based R&B quartet Cherish, and British singer-songwriter Griff, produced by Mura Masa.
On the album, he returned to his roots in club music. Mura Masa said, “I'm just really wanting to get back to club music. I started off really electronic music in my bedroom like no features just using samples. And I just wanted to like get back to grassroots kind of electronic music.”
He continued, "Feels very different to be releasing a record this time around. Being independent affords so much more control and connection to the work. I wanted to make something no frills, no cynical music industry narrative, no manipulative backstory. Just music that I think is really great and that people can gather around."- Mura Masa said of the album, “Curve 1 is ultimately a manifestation of an attitude I've been cultivating in my personal life; ignore everything. All the content, all of the attention economy, all of it. In doing that, the really meaningful and vital parts of what's around you make themselves known and unignorable, demanding your energy. It's my first offering as an independent artist through my own record label, and as such I wanted it to be as free and anti-narrative as possible. Impressionistic.”
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He continued, “Music as entertainment has in many cases, to me, become very advertorial and excessively sentimental in terms of creating narrative around albums and artists. I wanted to strip this away as much as possible to leave room for the music to create its own meaning in the lives of people who form connections with it. It's hard for me not to explain away the intricacies and ideas contained within these records after having theorised and tolled and executed them over the course of nearly three years, but I think it's far more fitting of the album's intent to say simply: listen to it in the dark.”
Background photo by Dani Bastidas - source : Apple Music
