SBTRKT has announced his first full-length album since 2014. The English producer will deliver The Rat Road on May 5 via Save Yourself / AWAL.
The Rat Road will mark SBTRKT's LP since 2014's Wonder Where We Land, which featured Sampha, Caroline Polachek, A$AP Ferg, Vampire Weeknd's Ezra Koenig, Denai Moore and more.
Following that release, the artist born Aaron Jerome shared eight-track project SAVE YOURSELF. For The Rat Road, the artist played, recorded, produced and mixed every instrument himself.
"'The Rat Road' is a play on the concept of 'the rat race,'" Jerome explains. "It's partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally, though I realized the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion — definitely true here in the UK with little sense of respite from ever-increasing costs, decreasing opportunity, and a bold divide and conquer mentality. There is a juxtaposition in the record between determination and hopelessness."
Today, SBTRKT's forthcoming album is previewed by the Teezo Touchdown-assisted "Waiting," which you can hear below. The single arrives late 2022 arrivals "Bodmin Moor," "Miss the Days," "Ghost" and "Forward."
"I'm always listening to and looking out for new music, and I came across a song of Teezo's, 'I'm just a fan,' on October 21," Jerome shares. "By serendipity, he was heading to London the next week, so we connected in person. In some ways — although personal to Teezo too — it perfectly summed up everything I had been going through. It therefore felt like the most obvious song to then lead into my album with. Musically, it's an expansion on my previous records, with a purposefully wider and more layered sound."
The Rat Road will mark SBTRKT's LP since 2014's Wonder Where We Land, which featured Sampha, Caroline Polachek, A$AP Ferg, Vampire Weeknd's Ezra Koenig, Denai Moore and more.
Following that release, the artist born Aaron Jerome shared eight-track project SAVE YOURSELF. For The Rat Road, the artist played, recorded, produced and mixed every instrument himself.
"'The Rat Road' is a play on the concept of 'the rat race,'" Jerome explains. "It's partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally, though I realized the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion — definitely true here in the UK with little sense of respite from ever-increasing costs, decreasing opportunity, and a bold divide and conquer mentality. There is a juxtaposition in the record between determination and hopelessness."
Today, SBTRKT's forthcoming album is previewed by the Teezo Touchdown-assisted "Waiting," which you can hear below. The single arrives late 2022 arrivals "Bodmin Moor," "Miss the Days," "Ghost" and "Forward."
"I'm always listening to and looking out for new music, and I came across a song of Teezo's, 'I'm just a fan,' on October 21," Jerome shares. "By serendipity, he was heading to London the next week, so we connected in person. In some ways — although personal to Teezo too — it perfectly summed up everything I had been going through. It therefore felt like the most obvious song to then lead into my album with. Musically, it's an expansion on my previous records, with a purposefully wider and more layered sound."