Mura Masa announces his new album, Curve 1

“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," he explains.

"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," he continues. "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.”

Mura Masa has released a string of club-ready singles in the lead up to the release, including his most recent electroclash collaboration with yeule "We Are Making Out", as well as "Still", "rise/gimme", "Drugs" and "Whenever I Want" (which chopped up vocals from Griff).

The last year or so has pulled Mura Masa into focus as one of this generation’s most influential figures. Aptly reflecting his rare standing at the heart of youth culture, Mura Masa recently co-wrote long standing collaborator PinkPantheress’ new single "Turn It Up", as well as creating a series of remixes for Troye Sivan’s "Honey", producing global hits like "Boy’s a liar Pt.2" to seminal records like Shygirl’s Mercury-nominated Nymph.