The 29-year-old artist burst onto the scene with his first record, ‘Gang Signs & Prayer’, back in 2017 after the release of two extended plays and one mixtape. Within 2 years he was headlining the biggest music festival in the world!
‘Hide & Seek’ is the first single dropping from the album and will be released just weeks after his return to music was marked with his legendary ‘Mel Made Me Do It’ track, which featured a star-studded list of cameos in the music video.
Described as “an intimate love letter to music” in a press statement, the album is said to have been created while Stormzy attended a “ music camp” in Osea Island, Essex “When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” Stormzy explains. “People saying: ‘We need to make an album.’ ‘We need to make some hit records.’ But this felt beautifully free. We’re all musicians but we weren’t always doing music. Some days we played football or walked around taking pictures. And the bi-product to that was very beautiful music.
“Because when you marry that ethos with world class musicians and the best producers, writers and artists in the world, and we’re in one space, that’s a recipe for something that no one can really imagine. You can’t even calculate what that’s going to come up with. And it came up with a big chunk of this album.”