Further to creating a return to the musical sphere final month along with his mammoth viral observe “Mel Made Me Do It”, British musician Stormzy has at the moment confirmed particulars of his extremely anticipated third album, This Is What I Mean, set for launch globally on November twenty fifth 2022 by way of 0207 Def Jam/Interscope Records and obtainable to pre-order now – here.
This Is What I Mean
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— Stormzy (@stormzy) October 12, 2022
Returning to social media after a close to 3-year hiatus, Stormzy has additionally unveiled the album’s poignant art work; a letter, positioned on a doorstep, emblazoned with the phrases ‘This Is What I Mean.’ The art work additionally reveals the albums 12-track, tracklisting, outlined under.
THIS IS WHAT I MEAN TRACK-LISTING:
- Fire + Water
- This Is What I Mean
- FireBabe
- Please
- Need You
- Hide & Seek
- My Presidents Are Black
- Sampha’s Plea
- Holy Spirit
- Bad Blood
- I Got My Smile Back
- Give It To The Water
On the discharge of his third album, Stormzy stands not solely as considered one of Britain’s most achieved rappers, however considered one of its most achieved musicians of any style and a cultural icon. Through his new report, he’s delivered an plain trendy basic, effortlessly condensing any variety of disparate types and genres into music which thrillingly broaches any hole between pressing trendy treatise, soul and hip-hop.
A daring, courageous and brave leap ahead from his critically acclaimed earlier two #1 data, ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’and ‘Heavy Is The Head’, this isn’t music merely for the pop charts however moderately, an intimate love letter to music and one which showcases intensely private and lyrical themes which lay naked the vulnerabilities, remorse, frailties, therapeutic, pleasure and triumph in a fashion and to an extent that reframes the notion of what rap artists historically would possibly do and be.
The confidence which drove the album stemmed from a deeper and much more non secular place than we have now seen from Stormzy beforehand. For all of the success and awards that he has accrued throughout his transient, meteoric profession, the lockdown that ensued from the coronavirus pandemic gave him one commodity he’d lengthy lacked: time. And because of his sense of accomplishment following Glastonbury he was, for the primary time, ready to benefit from it.
Much of the artistic vitality that formed the album emerged from a Stormzy music camp in Osea Island – a distant island within the Essex estuary that’s solely accessible by way of a Roman Causeway for 4 hours a day at low tide. Surrounded by modern producers and musicians (who will all be unveiled in the end), every morning they’d eat and pray collectively after which spend the remainder of the time pushed to artistic heights by one another’s abilities. “When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” says Stormzy. ““People saying: “We need to make an album.” “We need to make some hit records.” But this felt superbly free. We’re all musicians however we weren’t all the time doing music. Some days we performed soccer or walked round taking footage. And the bi-product to that was very stunning music. Because once you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the very best producers, writers and artists on this planet, and we’re in a single house, that’s a recipe for one thing that nobody can actually think about. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to give you. And it got here up with an enormous chunk of this album.”
The web result’s that whereas This Is What I Mean sounds very very similar to Stormzy, it appears like no Stormzy album you might have ever heard earlier than.
