2018 was one other improbable yr for dance music albums. Deadmau5 dropped an orchestral album; Getter dropped his debut album Visceral; Jauz, Ghastly, Golden Features, Kayzo, Mitis, pluko, Said The Sky and extra additionally dropped their very own debut albums. We obtained new albums from RL Grime, Rezz, The Glitch Mob, The Crystal Method, Headhunterz and extra, as properly.
But it’s 2019 now, and we have already got so much to sit up for.
More than a couple of artists made references to new materials, together with EPs and albums, of their farewells to 2018. But even then, it doesn’t start to scratch the floor on all of the albums and initiatives that haven’t even been introduced but.
JOYRYDE
We anticipated JOYRYDE’s debut album BRAVE in 2018, however as a result of some , it needed to be pushed again. With a 2019 launch confirmed, that is one album we all know we will sit up for. When your first single is a long-awaited , it type must be, doesn’t it?
Gesaffelstein
The darkish prince techno returned in 2018 with on his new house at Columbia Records. After the preliminary luster the only wore f, followers have been prepared for extra. Thankfully, Gesaffelstein rapidly adopted up the only with the a brand new album Hyperion due this yr.
Feed Me
Feed Me didn’t launch a single observe in 2018, however he has a superb cause for it.
“I shut up lately as a result of I’ve been ending an album and I hate this concept that I’m supposed to rent some fool firm to ‘sustain appearances’ on my social media stuff,” he wrote on Instagram. “I handed it on this weekend and I feel it’s one of the best factor I’ve completed.”
We can’t wait to listen to it!
Ekali
After releasing his debut EP Crystal Eyes early in 2018, Ekali is able to sort out one thing greater. He a 2019 debut album in October: “No producer collabs, no ghost manufacturing, I’m gonna combine and grasp it myself. I'm so enthusiastic about it.”
While we cherished Ekali’s work with Medasin, Elohim, SLUMBERJACK, Denzel Curry, and extra, we've to understand and respect his personal imaginative and prescient for his work.
Zedd
There’s been no specific point out a Zedd album in 2019, however it is sensible. Clarity dropped in 2012, True Colors dropped in 2015, so 2019 for Z3 is a secure wager. There’s additionally from Polydor Records to level to. A collaboration with Khalid is , and together with tracks with Elley Duhé, Maren Morris, Liam Payne, and Alessia Cara, he has fairly the collaborative group already. But is that this the Z3 that followers need?
Readers will keep in mind the superior rollout True Colors from 2015 when Zedd despatched followers on scavenger hunts in a quantity cities and invited them to take heed to singles in non-public in color-themed venues. It’s nonetheless one the best album rollouts in current reminiscence; we hope that zeal continues to be in Zedd’s repertoire and this isn’t solely a pop money seize.
Skrillex
This is a prediction we've yearly, and it looks like yearly that passes, the subsequent turns into extra possible. We had good phrase from business sources Skrillex album was being completed in 2018, however clearly that wasn’t the case.
Now that Skrillex has been extra actively taking part in exhibits, and, in doing so, sharing a bunch new IDs within the course of, a 2019 album appears all of the extra possible. Still, very like Zedd, is it going to be the album that followers need? With all his current collaborations on pop and hip hop tunes, in addition to the very chill “Would You Ever?” from 2017, we've to surprise if there’s going to be any SMANS-era Skrillex on the file.
We’re torn between respecting an artist’s personal imaginative and prescient and what we really need — however on the finish the day, even when we get what we wish, if the artist isn’t captivated with it, it received’t really feel like the true factor.
Flume
Flume took a break from releasing music in 2018, however he’s in 2019. While a full album isn’t precisely possible, it’s nonetheless a chance — and on our wishlist.
There’s been so much modifications within the dance music style area even since his final album Skin was launched in 2016. Flume additionally has the unlucky stress being a real innovator in dance music, and so the burden on him to create one thing subsequent stage is course much more intense.
No matter what, we’re excited to listen to what Flume has to fer this yr.
Madeon
This is one other artist who, like Skrillex, we placed on our want listing yearly. Madeon dropped his debut album Adventure in 2015, and except for “Shelter” with Porter Robinson and its accompanying evil edit, releases have been scant.
He simply with Lido for rapper Ric Wilson, and in addition at Brownies & Lemonade’s Lounge NYE present, so a 2019 launch is trying extra possible.
In January 2018, he with a photograph LA: “This is the place I’m ending my album this yr.” Let’s hope 2019 is the yr it comes out!
DJ Snake
The identical as Zedd, a from Polydor Records, which distributes music for Interscope in Europe, claims that an album from DJ Snake is to be anticipated in 2019. Snake had fairly the energetic 2018, dropping new information with Jauz and Mercer & Tchami. And then there’s “Taki Taki” with Selena Gomez, Cardi B and Ozuna, a trio collaborators who're nothing to scf at.
A 2019 album is properly inside the realm chance, particularly as his debut album encore is almost three years outdated. The Parisian DJ has achieved so much since then, and it’s truthful to say a sophomore album might put him on a fair larger echelon.