Anxieties are pumping through Raw Youth Collage, Mura Masa’s fourth album that strips back his signature electro-IDM production in favour of organic instrumentation with guitars and drums writhing in reverb and bass. Born and raised on the small island of Guernsey, if anyone knows what it’s like to grow up with a small population of British peers it’s the face behind Mura Masa- Alex Crossan.

Raw Youth Collage isn’t solely an album based around channelling the inherent ideologies held by the young adults of the UK. For the first time in history, the artist incorporates his own voice on many of the tracks. Each song where Crossan himself is singing creates an honest and raw portrait, even when masked with upbeat drum patterns with layers of reverb hiding his identity. Personal and uniting stories of heartbreak, obsession, and overall hopelessness are channelled into danceable songs larger than life, two of which placed in the top 10 of our top 50 songs of 2019.