RL Grime Announces New Album Is Done and New Music Is Dropping This Friday
RL Grime’s next album ‘NOVA’ has been hyped up to extraordinary heights. Seeing that the release date for the new LP hasn’t even been announced, yet everyone is nonstop talking about it – expectations are high. Considering that RL Grime’s last album, ‘VOID’ changed the entire course of electronic music in profound ways only further pushes the idea that the world cannot wait to hear the magic that will be ‘NOVA’.
So far we have heard a few singles off the new album, ranging from the atmospheric and orchestral ‘Aurora’, to the visceral banger ‘Era’, and even the unexpected but welcome ‘Stay For It’. Now though we finally have news that ‘NOVA’ is finished, and what’s more? We are getting what is suspected to be the final single off the new album this Friday, March 16th.
RL Grime took to social media to announce the news, and fans immediately responded with tremendous excitement. Will ‘NOVA” be as genre shaping as ‘VOID’ was? Only time will tell as we continue to wait patiently for more news around the release date of the forthcoming album.
‘NOVA’ Lived Up To The Hype
RL Grime’s patience paid off — ‘NOVA’ arrived as planned and delivered exactly the genre-blending statement fans had been anticipating since ‘VOID’ first reshaped what a trap-rooted album could sound like. Where ‘VOID’ leaned harder into aggressive, bass-heavy territory, ‘NOVA’ pulled from a wider palette, folding in the atmospheric textures of ‘Aurora’ and the unexpected melodic turns of ‘Stay For It’ alongside harder cuts like ‘Era.’ The final single teased in this post rounded out a tracklist that critics and fans alike pointed to as one of the more ambitious bass music albums of that era.
Why RL Grime Albums Are Treated As Events
Part of why ‘NOVA’ generated this much anticipation before a release date even existed comes down to how selectively RL Grime treats album cycles. He’s never been an artist who floods streaming platforms with constant singles just to stay visible — instead, he builds toward full-length statements that get treated as genuine events within the bass and trap scenes. That scarcity, paired with the outsized influence ‘VOID’ had on the sound of an entire generation of producers, is exactly why a cryptic Instagram post with no title or release date was enough to send fans into a frenzy.
