To see if we can make something both mysterious and honest… build off the feeling of getting the whole picture, from start to finish. Your input and the way you engage with my music and performance has always driven me forward, and will be a vital part of what I do over the coming year. So it won’t just be me setting the storyline. More than just an album, or a show, or a single narrative, I want the Nova project to create spaces where you can feel part of the process and support platforms for your own ideas, while allowing me to share mine too.

Nova will define and encompass every part of the RL Grime project over the coming years. For this next chapter, just like you’ve been with me to share the results of the process, this time I want to share the journey with you as well. The thing that unites it isn’t just RL Grime, it’s your experiences. I’ve been lucky enough to travel the world off the things I’ve made, and the realization I’ve come to is this: From the artwork, to the music videos, to the live show hearing the music is just a part of a much greater whole. The landscape has changed significantly since my last album, and the past few years have been helpful in gaining perspective on what that purpose is. I take pride in ensuring there is true meaning and purpose behind the music I release. Since the release of VOID, I’ve quietly been working on the next chapter of the RL Grime project. One page includes the URL and the Instagram handle, This, if you remember, is the name of one of his singles from 2015 released via WEDIDIT. There are also a handful of pictures of Henry, in the studio and on stage, as well as various concept images. Included in the packet is a large degree of what some might call “lore” – there are transcripts from a studio session with Miguel, during the recording of their collaboration “Stay For It.” RL Grime includes a personal letter to fans describing the concept behind Nova and what it means for him as an artist, and how it applies to fans, as well. “A nova or classical nova is an astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright “new” star, that slowly fades from view over several weeks or many months.Ĭauses of their dramatic appearance varies depending on the circumstances of the progenitor stars .” In short, over the next year at least, all of RL Grime’s aesthetic will be governed by one simple concept: Nova. We have another banger guys and girls.A select group of RL Grime fans received a very special package in the mail from the man himself, describing his next move as an artist… and it’s a big one. This is the type of ish that we came to love RL Grime for and like before, we are left scratching our heads in disbelief. From the opening beat to the closing pulse, the listener is taken on a journey through synths that are comparable to the sound I would imagine Angels make, to drum lines that are reminiscent of the rain dance in the African rain forest and the unearthly low drops that in my opinion completely bring the track together. The production of this track is absolutely ridiculous.

Yesterday, the LA-native took to Twitter to announce the release of “Pressure” another single off the album coming this hump day! Today, he released it EVERYWHERE! Having already dropped two singles off Nova in the pop-droppy “I Wanna Know” featuring Daya and the Hip-Hop shifted “Undo” featuring Jeremih and Tory Lanez, RL Grime is bringing the heat with his highly-anticipated sophomore album. RL Grime “Pressure” of NOVA AlbumĪnd wham! He drops another banger! Shocker, I know. Over the course of 2018, Grime has followed “Stay For It” up with even more heat leading up to the release of his NOVA LP.

A little over a year ago, RL Grime teamed up with Miguel for “Stay For It”, one of the raddest tracks released in the year and one that left fans yearning for more. His live sets have lived up to his production prominence as he has taken over essentially every stage that matters across the globe. Over the course of the average millennials Electronic Music fandom, it is hard to pinpoint a time in which RL Grime was not gracing our earbuds with his banging trap snares, Hip-Hop infused bass lines and just all around impeccable production.

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