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give me The groud - Mura Masa
[Mura Masa:]
Don't try and fuck with my head
A very short track from the rising 21-year-old electronic producer, and songwriter, Mura Masa, who sings over his own beat on this one. Alex Crossman (Mura Masa) exploded into the mainstream this year with his self-produced and self-titled debut album, which featured the hit single "Love$ick" with A$AP Rocky, as well as "1 Night," with Charli XCX, and "All Around the World," with Desiigner, both of which saw their fair share of attention too. Mura Masa is one of the few electronic albums that I enjoy the entire way through because of its sonic variety, and the fact that Crossman seems to collaborate very smoothly with other artists. He's aware of the cultural zeitgeist, so his Caribbean and Afrocentric beats come off less as appropriation and more as important global influences: "The truth is, at the end of the day, popular culture is Black culture and the sooner people understand that and accept that, the better off they're going to be in trying to understand why things are popular."
On "give me The ground," the British DJ dejectedly sings six lines about a painful breakup over a melancholic guitar, and while the track barely lasts a minute, it's packed with emotion. The muffled vocal splitting on his voice and the overall mood of the song reminds me a lot of Bon Iver's "715 - CR∑∑KS" from their underrated experimental 2016 album 22, A Million. Crossman seems to find success in every style he tries, and after his recent success it's going to be fun to see where the young musician goes from here.
[Mura Masa:]
Don't try and fuck with my head
A very short track from the rising 21-year-old electronic producer, and songwriter, Mura Masa, who sings over his own beat on this one. Alex Crossman (Mura Masa) exploded into the mainstream this year with his self-produced and self-titled debut album, which featured the hit single "Love$ick" with A$AP Rocky, as well as "1 Night," with Charli XCX, and "All Around the World," with Desiigner, both of which saw their fair share of attention too. Mura Masa is one of the few electronic albums that I enjoy the entire way through because of its sonic variety, and the fact that Crossman seems to collaborate very smoothly with other artists. He's aware of the cultural zeitgeist, so his Caribbean and Afrocentric beats come off less as appropriation and more as important global influences: "The truth is, at the end of the day, popular culture is Black culture and the sooner people understand that and accept that, the better off they're going to be in trying to understand why things are popular."
On "give me The ground," the British DJ dejectedly sings six lines about a painful breakup over a melancholic guitar, and while the track barely lasts a minute, it's packed with emotion. The muffled vocal splitting on his voice and the overall mood of the song reminds me a lot of Bon Iver's "715 - CR∑∑KS" from their underrated experimental 2016 album 22, A Million. Crossman seems to find success in every style he tries, and after his recent success it's going to be fun to see where the young musician goes from here.
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