Dave has introduced his third album, titled ‘The Boy Who Performed the Harp’, and it is because of be launched later this month.
The Brixton-born, Streatham-raised rapper introduced the information on his social media pages earlier at the moment (October 1), with the recording arriving on Friday October 24. No additional particulars, aside from the title, cowl artwork and launch date, have been revealed; nonetheless, the album is accessible for pre-order.
This announcement comes after Dave wiped his social media pages earlier this week, and pointed followers to a model new sign-up web page – prompting hypothesis over what this implies.
The upcoming launch from Dave will comply with back-to-back Primary albums, ‘Psychodrama’, launched in 2019, and 2021’s ‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’.
NME gave Dave’s 2021 album ‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’ 5 stars in a evaluation. The mission, which featured James Blake and Stormzy, was recommended for its confidence and skill to inform tales via its intelligent wordplay and easy manufacturing.
The evaluation concluded: “As illustrated all through the beautiful ‘Psychodrama’, Dave has at all times been the one to rap historically, utilizing hip-hop for what it was supposed to do: give a voice to the unvoiced. He has at all times been in a position to present the inner-workings of many younger Londoners in a clear and common approach that may maybe assist the entire world to higher perceive the Black British expertise, particularly that of Black males.
“At all times prepared to inform the exhausting truths for individuals who can’t, Dave has proved once more that he’s a voice of a era, sitting fairly atop his friends in the case of making unforgettable London rap classics.”
‘We’re All Alone In This Collectively’ debuted on the high spot within the charts with over 74,000 chart gross sales – 56 per cent of which had been bodily copies – making it the best opening week of 2021.
Moreover being the chart’s greatest opening week since November 2019, when Coldplay’s ‘On a regular basis Life’ opened with 81,000 chart gross sales, Dave’s newest providing has additionally claimed the most important opening week for a UK rap album since Tinie Tempah’s debut ‘Disc-Overy’ in October 2010.
In July, Dave joined Drake on stage at Wi-fi Pageant for ‘Wanna Know’ – earlier than being joined afterwards by Central Cee for “Sprinter’. Earlier this 12 months, he spoke out about his waning confidence in Manchester United, and mentioned so long as the crew is owned by the Glazers it “won’t ever know peace”.
The rapper has been a longtime supporter of the Manchester crew, and made quite a few mentions to the membership in his tracks, together with shouting out participant Amad Diallo in 2023 in his monitor ‘UK Rap’.
