MURA MASA’S NEW ALBUM CURVE 1 OUT NOW VIA HIS OWN POND RECORDINGS

CONFIRMS CURVE CLUB SHOWS IN BERLIN, PARIS, NEW YORK CITY AND MORE

August 23, 2024—Curve 1, the new album from Platinum-selling, Grammy-winning artist Mura Masa, is out today, marking the first album released on his own Pond Recordings and continuing a club-oriented era in which he explores the full spectrum of electronic music—get it HERE.

To celebrate the album, Mura Masa confirms a series of worldwide Curve Club DJ shows in Berlin, London, New York City and more— see full routing below. Tomorrow, he will officially launch the record in a live capacity during his DJ set at London’s Field Day Festival.

Of Curve 1, Mura Masa says…

“Curve 1 is ultimately a manifestation of an attitude I’ve been cultivating in my personal life: ignore everything. All the content, all of the attention economy, all of it. In doing that, the really meaningful and vital parts of what’s around you make themselves known and unignorable, demanding your energy. It’s my first offering as an independent artist through my own record label, and as such I wanted it to be as free and anti-narrative as possible. Impressionistic. Music as entertainment has in many cases, to me, become very advertorial and excessively sentimental in terms of creating narrative around albums and artists. I wanted to strip this away as much as possible to leave room for the music to create its own meaning in the lives of people who form connections with it. It’s hard for me not to explain away the intricacies and ideas contained within these records after having theorised and toiled and executed them over the course of nearly three years, but I think it’s far more fitting of the album’s intent to say simply: listen to it in the dark.”

Curve 1 features previously shared singles “FLY” with Cherish, “We Are Making Out” featuring yeule, “rise/gimme,” “Whenever I Want,” “Drugs” featuring Daniela Lalita and “Still,” all love letters to club spaces and the music and people that fill them. Full of tension and release, ambiguity and playfulness, the significance of Curve 1 is left up to the individual—whether enjoyed solo or in the sweat of a packed room, here is music as enigmatic and layered as its author.

Recent years have pulled Mura Masa into focus as one of this generation’s most influential figures. He produced a global hit with PinkPantheress and Ice Spice’s “Boy’s a liar Pt. 2,” collaborated extensively across Shygirl’s Mercury Prize-nominated Nymph, remixed the likes of Georgia and Troye Sivan as well as soundtracking the zeitgeist with credits ranging from J Balvin and Eliza Rose to Gretel Hänlyn. It’s a juncture that’s also seen Mura Masa embark on a new chapter of his own, setting up his label and a creative hub and arts space, The Pond, in Peckham as a base for emerging artists, which is slated to launch next year.

With 2 billion streams and headline shows from Alexandra Palace to Warehouse Project, Mura Masa has built an audience that will follow wherever his genre-defying work goes next. Curve 1 marks a back-to-your-roots approach while highlighting the trailblazing young star’s recurring theme: to capture “that” curvature in pop culture, to make it his own and push things forward.

For more information, please contact Reid Kutrow, Ethan Jacobs or Carla Sacks at Sacks & Co., 212.741.1000.

MURA MASA—CURVE 1
1. Whenever I Want
2. gimme
3. We Are Making Out (feat. yeule)
4. SXC
5. Drugs (feat. Daniela Lalita)
6. giddyup
7. Shuf (Adore You)
8. rep 4 me
9. Still
10. FLY (feat. Cherish)

MURA MASA LIVE
August 24 /// London, UK /// Field Day Festival
October 11 /// Berlin, DE /// Klubnacht at Æden
October 12 /// Amsterdam, NL /// Parallel
October 18 /// Brussels, BE /// Grand Salon
October 19 /// London, UK /// Outernet
November 2 /// Paris, FR /// Badaboum
November 15 /// New York, NY /// 99 Scott
November 23 /// Barcelona, ES /// Nitsa