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MURA MASA ANNOUNCES SECOND ALBUM, R.Y.C (RAW YOUTH COLLAGE), FOR JANUARY 17TH RELEASE

WORLD TOUR ALSO ANNOUNCED  

 

 

 

Praise for debut album Mura Masa:

“Brilliantly clever…bubbling with energy and ideas” Observer, **** Album of the Week

"Fresh and immediate...pure quality, from start to finish" Q, ****

“As forward-thinking and futuristic as they come” NME, **** Album of the Week

“A dizzying exploration of musical subcultures…this is what pop should be: diverse, interesting and surprising” Mixmag, 9/10

“A dazzling tribute to London’s rich multiculturalism…a feast of sounds and flavours” NPR

“A portrait of the artist as a young man…abandon, uncertainty, and a lust for love and life” Billboard

"An album that we'll look back on as one that not only soundtracks 2017, but defines it as a snapshot of a fresh sound" Dork ****

 

25 OCTOBER 2019 (TORONTO, ON) - Mura Masa has today announced details of his much-anticipated second album, R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage), which will be released on January 17th. Introduced by latest single “I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again” (with Clairo), the record is further previewed today by anthemic new track “No Hope Generation”, which is available immediately when pre-ordering the album. The full tracklist for R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) is detailed below, with additional guests including slowthai, Tirzah, Georgia, Ellie Rowsell from Wolf Alice (and Alex himself stepping out as lead-vocalist).

 

Pre-order R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) HERE

Listen to "No Hope Generation" HERE

 

Fresh from headlining Manchester’s Warehouse Project, Reading & Leeds festival, and upfront of next week’s Pitchfork Paris, Mura Masa has also confirmed details of a huge global headline tour for 2020 – see Canadian dates below. Pre-sale for these shows is open now, with general sale beginning on November 1st.

 

“What am I to do? I’m walking backwards through my head again,” Alex sings on “No Hope Generation” – a moment that’s as true to the sound as the spirit of the second Mura Masa second album at large. Because what do you do when you’ve won a Grammy, been shortlisted for an Ivor Novello, appeared on Forbes’ 30 under 30, and shifted more than half a million units of your debut album by the time you’re 23? And how do you reconcile all this with being a member of the self-described “No Hope Generation”? If you’re Mura Masa, you stop and look back; piecing together just how you got to where you stand today and strive to learn something of the messy world we live in in the process, too.

 

What’s emerged is R.Y.C (or Raw Youth Collage) - an ambitious and exciting left-turn from an artist and producer whose ability to always surprise is matched only by his remarkably consistent, singular vision. Breathing new life into - amongst other things – New Wave, Emo, Folk and 90s Rave – tracks like “No Hope Generation” reinvent Mura Masa's sound whilst also paying tribute to the alternative roots which shaped him when he first became a genuine musical outsider, growing up in the remote island of Guernsey. And it’s this fondness for the music of adolescence – reworked in thoroughly modern, bedroom-pop fashion – that became an analogue for the theme of the album as a whole…

 

Spiritually, R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) addresses a generational addiction to nostalgia, and its uses (and limits) as means of coping with the difficulties of the present. Influenced by ideas around Hauntology, it explores the irony that in times of increased urbanisation and digitisation, somehow it’s never been easier to feel lonely. For Mura Masa, it’s only once we accept nostalgia as a permanent fixture – a fact seemingly embodied by the cyclical phases in which different subcultures, political movements, fashion trends, even musical genres wax and wane – that we can start to learn from it. Why do we keep going back? How reliable is memory? And if your youth – and its assorted musical scenes – will always appear rose-tinted in the rear-view, then perhaps your present is there for the taking, after all.

 

Despite the odds, Mura Masa's endless desire to learn and push himself further has led to where he finds himself on R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage): an artist able to channel those highs and lows of youth culture, and use it to expand what pop music should sound like today. It’s an album that strikes on the zeitgeist of his generation precisely by understanding the road that took us to this point. Even when interrogating the past, Mura Masa sounds like the future. 

 

R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) is available to pre-order digitally, physically (LP, CD) with additional formats including recycled cassette and the deluxe bundle (includes Pressure Sensitive Vinyl & R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) book at: https://www.muramasa.me/

 

R.Y.C (Raw Youth Collage) - Tracklist

  1. Raw Youth Collage
  2. No Hope Generation
  3. I Don’t Think I Can Do This Again (with Clairo)
  4. a meeting at an oak tree (with Ned Green)
  5. Deal Wiv It (with slowthai)
  6. vicarious living anthem
  7. In My Mind
  8. Today (with Tirzah)
  9. Live Like We’re Dancing (with Georgia)
  10. Teenage Headache Dreams (with Ellie Rowsell)
  11. (nocturne for strings and a conversation)

 

 

World Tour (General Sale November 1st) – Canadian Dates:

Fri 24 Apr|| Vancouver, BC|| The Vogue

Fri 01 May || Toronto, ON || Rebel

Sat 02 May|| Montreal, QC || MTelus

 

 

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