Album review
Mura Masa has announced a new album, Curve 1, which is set to drop on August 23 through his own Pond Recordings. It includes the previously shared tracks ‘We Are Making Out’ featuring yeule, ‘rise/gimme’, ‘Whenever I Want’, ‘Drugs’ featuring Daniela Lalita, and ‘still’. Check out an extended mix of its latest single ‘Fly’, featuring Cherish, below.
Introducing the album, Mura Masa said in a press release:
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. 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 toiled 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.
Curve 1 Cover Artwork:
