It was super fun, we hung out, smoked cigarettes, talked about fashion and Tame Impala.' But then I said to him that it was about being stupid and feeling lovesick and hanging over a girl and he brought that to it as well. Recording Ĭrossan told about the recording of ' Lovesick': 'The first thing he said was that it made him feel really tropical, like he was in Ibiza or something and I was like, 'OK let's roll with that'.

He announced in December 2016 that the follow-up would be an album titled To Fall Out of Love To. The following year, he released his debut EP, Someday Somewhere, on 10 April.

He posted his debut mixtape Soundtrack to a Death to SoundCloud, later released by Jakarta Records on 17 November 2014. At 16, he started to make electronic songs using Ableton Live, and began uploading them to SoundCloud the following year, under the alias Mura Masa. Upon release, it received positive reviews by critics, and debuted at number 19 on the UK Albums Chart and at 192 on the US Billboard 200.Īfter playing guitar, bass, drums and singing in local punk, hardcore, deathcore and gospel bands, Alex Crossan started self-producing at the age of 15, 'searching for samples on YouTube and other corners of the internet'. It was supported by six singles: 'What If I Go?', ' Lovesick', '1 Night', 'All Around the World', 'Second 2 None' / 'Blu' and 'Nuggets' / 'Helpline'. It is a pop, electronic, hip hop and funk album, incorporating trap, bubblegum and electronic sub-genres such as ambient, disco, dubstep, house and tropical house. It received nominations for Best Dance/Electronic Album and Best Recording Package at the 60th Annual Grammy Awards. Paul, ASAP Rocky, Bonzai, Charli XCX, Christine and the Queens, Damon Albarn, Desiigner, Jamie Lidell, NAO and Tom Tripp. The album was produced and recorded by Crossan from 2014 to 2016, and has guest features by A. It was released on 14 July 2017 by Polydor, Interscope, Downtown and Anchor Point Records.

Mura Masa is the debut studio album by Guernsey-born music producer Alex Crossan, under his alias Mura Masa.

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