Slushii returns with his second album of the 12 months, “A Slushii Summer” [Interview]

It’s been six years since the first Slushii album, and after a tumultuous previous couple of years, Slushii returns with his second album of the 12 months, A Slushii Summer.

He already launched E.L.E (Extinction Level Event) with Monstercat earlier this 12 months, and now he heads to Dim Mak for his latest challenge which leans extra pop than heavy. Collaborations with Aviella, Mackenzie Sol, Pauline Herr, and Love Jesse positively give off that bubbly pop vibe. On the different hand, the remaining three tracks on the album positively go tougher, bringing on Dr. Ozi, Teddy Killerz, Bok Nero & Softest Hard, and others.

“I had never released this many songs at once ever,” Slushii says. “It was an experiment. It was nice being untethered by traditional album rules and being able to put something out for every single week of summer!”

As summer season technically ended yesterday, September 22, this album marks the finish of a season, an period? But each music has these summer season vibes someplace.

Listen under and hold scrolling for an interview with Slushii about the album and the course of.

Rather a lot of artists have completed this kind of factor, releasing one observe a month, per week, a day, for nevertheless lengthy. Do you’re feeling such as you’re studying quite a bit with this experiment?

Yeah, I positively assume it’s been a studying expertise for positive. Usually initiatives like this have a extremely overblown advertising plan and take perpetually to get off the floor, therefore the minimalistic method and the weekly direct to streaming strategies of launch.

Since you’ve switched it up for this album, have you ever seen any distinction in fan engagement with every new launch?

I really feel like the coolest half is that every fan has gravitated in the direction of a special music. The engagement throughout all of them has been fairly related and there’s no consensus on which one is the ‘best song’, which I believe is basically cool!

Can you elaborate about the Slushii Summer idea as an entire?

Basically it’s a group of songs I’ve written over the pandemic that didn’t actually have a house, and reasonably than slowly trickle these data out I wished to launch them speedy hearth to present the followers a gradual circulation of music for the complete summer season!

Since signing with Dim Mak, how do you’re feeling about the assist you’ve gotten from the label particularly with this distinctive challenge?

It’s been nice, I believe that they’ve been capable of actually encapsulate the imaginative and prescient I had for this challenge to the fullest for positive.

You’ve managed to launch an album almost yearly since 2016, to not point out different albums from sapientdream. How do you retain up with and handle that stage of intense productiveness?

Honestly it’s one thing that I simply ‘do’. My thoughts is an ever flowing waterfall of music and to not write means existentialism and tedium for me. So I principally write to maintain myself busy.

Once the album is out, and the present tour dates are completed, you assume you’ll simply head again in the studio and pump out one other album for subsequent 12 months?

Honestly I don’t know what’s in retailer for the future of Slushii. The story I’ve advised with all of you over the previous 7 years has been superb and is one thing I will probably be perpetually grateful for. Even if I put down the pen after this, it was superb to collaborate and meet my heroes, in addition to work with some of the greatest and brightest minds in the trade.

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