Psychodrama

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The album addresses a number of issues, particularly focusing on Dave's struggles with mental health, namely depression. The album’s singles were also certified with “Location” featuring Burna Boy becoming BRIT Certified 2x Platinum, “Black” becoming BRIT Certified Silver, as well as “Streatham” and “Disaster” featuring J Hus both becoming BRIT Certified Gold. The rapper has taken his time over the release, building a vivid, unique voice across a flurry of releases that have gained more than 600 million streams. Recorded at Hive Mind Studios in Brooklyn, NY, with the help of producer/arrangers Mike Buckley and Vincent Chiarito (both members of Charles Bradley's Extraordinaires) and crack team of a-list musicians, his upcoming album blends heavy arrangements and introspective lyrics with sophistication, leaving the listener in a blissful wash of wonderment.

The album was supported by four singles: "Black", "Streatham", " Location" and " Disaster", with the latter three all reaching the top 10 on the UK Singles Chart. An accompanying tour was announced days later, and the tracklist was revealed on 3 March, showing features from Burna Boy, Ruelle, and the then-incarcerated J Hus. Coinciding with the album's release, Dave released another single, "Streatham" on 7 March, via a music video. Regarding the album's vocals, a Sony C800 microphone was used and tracked through a UTA mic pre, summit TLA 100 compressor and then the UTA Unfairchild compressor.We wrote "Picture Me" during that session and the relationship developed into us working together on Dave's first and second EPs 6 Paths, and Game Over. Dave: Psychodrama review – the boldest and best British rap album in a generation - Alexis Petridis's album of the week". The Independent labelled Psychodrama as "one of the most thoughtful, moving and necessary albums of 2019 so far", complimenting the concept and lyrical content: "Tracks are at once astute and deeply personal in how they capture vignettes of everyday life and spin them into important lessons.

Dave’s riveting and poetic at all times, documenting his experience as a young British black man and pulling back the curtain on the realities of fame. It encompasses a record label, pressing plant and online magazine, and collaborates with artists and musicians to create stunning audio-visual shows. Confession and self-reflection may be nothing new in rap, but they’ve rarely been done with such skill and imagination.He's so in love with finding the depth in art, the kind of depth that resonates, that working harder to achieve it doesn't bother him in the slightest.

Packing dense lyricism, poignant introspection, and resonant production into a neatly compiled concept, Dave's debut album is the product of a MC beyond his years, standing firmly among the Godfathers and Made in the Manors as one of the strongest British rap albums of the decade. While inspirations and general information about the album still remains scarce at the time of writing, it features contributions from Stormzy, Wizkid, Boj, Snoh Aalegra and James Blake.Debut album from the London artist who’s become one of the most important British rappers and this album shows exactly why.