Mura Masa has teamed up with Channel Tres and Shygirl for his new single, “hollaback bitch“, taken from his upcoming third album, Demon Time, out September 16th. Listen to the track now below.
Mura Masa has collaborated with a number of the artists who appear on Demon Time including PinkPantheress—on new single “Where you are” with Willow and “Just For Me” from her breakout debut—and Shygirl—on a rework of Lady Gaga’s “Sour Candy” for her remix album Dawn of Chromatica. Demon Time is available for pre-order digitally and on vinyl, CD and cassette HERE.
Mura Masa will play Glastonbury this weekend with a slew of festivals and a handful of headline dates in Australia and beyond slated for the remainder of the summer. All dates are listed below.
While making Demon Time, Mura Masa— the 25-year-old songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Alex Crossan—only had one question in mind: “What’s the most fun thing we can do?” The “we” he is referring to is the extensive roster of friends and collaborators he wrangled for his third album—including Shygirl, Channel Tres, Erika De Casier, Nao, Bayli, Isabella Lovestory and several others—with Mura Masa acting as the puppet master of sorts, employing his technical mastery to splice the most exciting elements together and hone the album’s central theme—pure, unbridled fun. For previous albums, Crossan busied himself compiling documents of musical references, moodboards and various thoughts and ideas to steer his creation process. This time, he was inspired by a note on his phone that just said one word in capital letters: FUN.
The name of the album refers to those early morning hours at a party or with friends where a delivish yet innocent sense of mischief prevails, a headspace that Mura Masa felt was crucial to tap into following two heavy years of pandemic blues. Rather than continuing to explore his last album’s preoccupation with nostalgia and a world of imagined memories, Mura Masa went in the opposite direction, opting for a tongue-in-cheek, hedonistic response to combat the absurdity of it all. “It’s devil on the shoulder type fun. Not necessarily the most wholesome, but it’s a really good time,” he says with a wink and a smile.
MURA MASA LIVE
June 25—Glastonbury—Somerset, U.K.
July 6—Mad Cool Festival—Madrid, Spain
July 22—Forum—Melbourne, Australia
July 23—Enmore—Sydney, Australia
July 24—Splendour Festival—Yelgun/Byron, Australia
July 27—Town Hall (Elemental Nights)—Auckland, NZ
July 31—Fuji Rocks—Niigata, Japan
August 5—Off Festival—Katowice, Poland
August 27—All Points East—London, U.K.