The album features a wide range of collaborations w/artists in the hip hop, urban and pop spaces which has helped us build into a broader and more. Goal with this album has been to use new music to further the process of globalizing Rl Grime's new music.
However, the tracks that will resonate and be featured at all the festivals are "Reims" ( one of our favorites from last year), "Pressure", and" Era". Executive produced by Diplo, NOVA is the first full project from RL in almost 4 years. We use cookies to let us know when you visit SoundCloud, to understand how you interact with us, to enrich and personalize your user experience, to enable social media functionality and to customize your relationship with SoundCloud, including providing you with more relevant advertising. Until the meat of the record, NOVA dances from genre to genre, with "Undo" producing the most simplistic trap offering, and "Take it Away" delivering a true future bass treat. SoundCloud may request cookies to be set on your device. Most likely it will be remembered for RL Grime wading into the DnB waters, instead of a memorable piece of music. The change of pace is nice, but the melody and progressions don't exactly re-invent the wheel. The second tune, "Shrine" features a DnB style drum pattern, and although it's in the 176bpm range, it does have a slightly more syncopated flavor. The album wastes no time showcasing a variety of styles. The 808 climbs and falls at just the right moments. It's a banger, and the second drop stretches out the squealing lead into a wavy, drunk sounding stutter. It's quintessential Grime, perfectly balanced trap elements and hi-hats absent for the first 16 bars. Some verses simply don't seem to line up with the vision of the album.Īlbum opener (and one of the last songs he completed) "Feel Free" draws you in with a clanging synth that melts into a Flume-esque vocal glide, rapidly building towards a beast of a trap drop. With NOVA, he has evolved again, this time away from pure straight-ahead festival bass-bangers, to some heavily R&B infused and almost top 40 pop sounding tunes. Some of the rap features feel unnecessary, offering very little. Almost as if their collaboration was for an aesthetic the vocals create rather than the substance of the lyrics.
Starting out as Clockwork, an electro-house main-stager, he's adapted into a visionary of trap with swagger.
The more compact festival-ready "dance" tracks are as formulaic as a Goosebumps novel. The snare fills in between 808 drops are text-book trap, included in thousands of trap songs. Although there is a nice array of variation in terms of playing around with genres, the actual execution of each style is standard. Instead of pushing it away, it fuelled him to create an album that overcame his demons, creating light out of darkness.Īt a glance, NOVA is a robust 15 songs, with more than half including a vocal collaboration. It's well documented the emotional struggle he felt in the years leading up to the album, with each melancholic tinge of depression demanding its way onto the album. In late 2014, Void was released.Īnd like the sudden explosion of two stars in space, four years later NOVA is born. After sprinkling the EDM world with nothing but hits, RL Grime was ready for his first full-length album at the ripe age of 23. With the elite vocal chopped melodies of Flume and Emoh, the three talented producers released "Tell Me" in 2014. With dubstep firmly in the rear-view mirror of "trendy" music, the time was now for RL Grime and his brand of dark trap to collide with the rising future bass sound.Įnter What So Not. Occupying the intersection of stripped-back trap and future bass, he made another smart move by coming together with "Harlem Shake" producer Baauer to create trap's most played song of the year, "Infinite Daps" in 2013. Albums include Void, NOVA, and High Beams. Genres: Trap EDM, Future Bass, Hybrid Trap. With sonically immaculate production and an energy behind his music that was uniquely his own, Grime swiftly claimed his piece of the EDM pie. RL Grime discography and songs: Music profile for RL Grime, born 8 February 1991. It went straight to #1 on the iTunes Electronic Charts.
After joining up with the WeDidIt Collective in 2011, and releasing massive remixes of Kanye's "Mercy" and Benny Benassi's "Satisfaction", Henry Steinway dropped his first EP High Beams. RL Grime Breaks Down His 15-Track Album NOVA: Exclusive By Kat Bein Yimmy Yayo RL Grime It was a long time in the incubator, but trap god RL Grime s NOVA LP is finally out in the.