Stormzy headlining Day 1 at TRSNMT Festival 2019 (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It’s Stormzy’s follow-up to 2019’s Heavy Is The Head.
As widely expected, Stormzy has confirmed his new studio album will be out before the end of this year.
This Is What I Mean is to be released by the iconic Def Jam label on November 25th – recorded, according to the grime superstar, during a ‘music camp’ in Osea Island.
“When you hear about music camps they always sound intense and sombre,” he said. “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.”
Recent single Mel Made Me Do It was assumed to be the introduction to the record, but it won’t be featuring on the 12-strong tracklist.
This Is What I Mean tracklist:
Fire + Water
This Is What I Mean
FireBabe
Please
Need You
Hide & Seek
My Presidents Are Black
Sampha’s Plea
Holy Spirit
Bad Blood
I Got My Smile Back
Give It To The Water