ura Masa aka Alex Crossan presents his much-anticipated, self-titled debut album on Downtown Records. Featuring acclaimed singles “Firefly,” “What If I Go?,” “Love$ick” and “1 Night,” Mura Masa – says Crossan – captures the confusion and chaos of being 20 and living in London for the first time. The trial and errors of youth are all here, but drawn together by the importance of togetherness, and the challenge to connect (however isolated your upbringing, messy your love life, or busy your city).

Mura Masa features an extraordinarily diverse mix of collaborators: ranging from Damon Albarn, Christine & The Queens and Charli XCX to A$AP Rocky, Desiigner, Jamie Lidell, A. K. Paul, and affiliates of Alex’s own Anchor Point family (like Nao, Bonzai and Tom Tripp). Prince-style wired funk sits next to trap with tropical-inflected house and acoustic balladry intertwined across the record. It’s singularly Mura Masa’s vision of what pop music should look like in 2017. Even the artwork rejects the idea of running to the page, or living in a box.

Digging into a dizzying array of musical subcultures, at the center of it all is a young Guernsey, UK producer barely out of his teens, whose hard work and innate curiosity has led to the point of curating an album alongside lifelong heroes, cult figures, and emerging talent. The results are a work of coherence, variety, and vitality – it is, quite simply, Mura Masa.