Miracle is the first solo release from the producer since his 2012 album ‘Electronic Earth’, which featured the number two single Earthquake. More recently he’s been busy with his collaborative project LSD, for which he works alongside Sia and Diplo.
Labrinth said of his new solo material:
“I could be putting this up to hide the fact that I’ve got nothing to show for all this time, but it’s actually that I have too much to show. Before I do that, I wanted to pay homage to where I’ve been so I don’t forget the time, the effort, the work, the false starts, the 10 steps forward, 100 step backs it’s taken to get here.”
Discussing his inspriation, he continued:
“I was working in LA for a while...Out there I spoke to artists and digested their experiences. It inspired me to create this story where a young kid sells his imagination to a businessman for success. It was based on the idea that a lot of artists, or anyone that has an imagination, come from a place of total innocence. Every idea you are creating is not about stats, not about money, not about vanity, it’s about realizing or fulfilling this idea. It’s not like saying being successful is bad, it’s saying what success do you want for yourself instead of the one version of success that we’re all pressured into wanting.”
As well as having written a score for HBO's Euphoria, more music is set to come throughout the year. For now, Miracle blends moody, throbbing synths with big band instrumentation, and explores the songwriter’s journey with a video that features a misfit kid, a soulless JuJu Man representing impurity and temptation, and a guardian butterfly. Check it out below.
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