Deadmau5 Releases New Album

The globally-renowned electronic artist deadmau5 has been super busy as of late. He recently overhauled his Toronto studio and after his recent European tour he locked himself away to get creative and finish his new album > album title goes here <, which is due out September 24 (Mau5trap/Parlophone).
deadmau5 has recently done some brilliant rock remixes, such as his version of Rope which he showcased with Foo Fighters at this year’s Grammy Awards. He has now enlisted the vocal talents of My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way, for his new single Professional Griefers. The single is out August 14 and is on the edgier side of deadmau5’s productions. Radio 1 are already loving it and have added it to their playlist.

Fans may already be familiar with the track, but as an unreleased instrumental during deadmau5’s Meowingtons Hax tour last year, where he premiered the single at his critically acclaimed headlining performance at Lollapalooza. The vocal version of Professional Griefers showcases stomping beats and heavily distorted guitar stabs at the beginning of the track. It then builds tension with discordant synth strikes and leads into the chorus which features one of rock’s most distinctive voices. The accompanying video was created by Dave Stewart’s Weapons of Mass Entertainment production company and features both deadmau5 and Gerard Way. It debuts later this month.

All the tracks on ‘> album title goes here <‘ are deadmau5 original productions. They include collaborations with ‘Animal Rights’ co-producer Wolfgang Gartner (‘Channel 42′); vocalists Imogen Heap (‘Telemiscommunications’) and Chris James (‘The Veldt’ – the critically acclaimed track inspired by the Ray Bradbury short story); and legendary hip-hop outfit Cypress Hill (‘Failbait’). New tracks include the Close Encounters of the Third Kind-inspired ‘Closer’, the dancefloor burner ‘There might be coffee’ and electronica piece ‘Sleepless’. Like ‘Fn Pig’ and ‘October’, many of these tracks have been available on deadmau5’s SoundCloud as rough edits. For ‘> album title goes here <‘ they come together as finished songs in the format he intends them to be heard by his fans.

deadmau5, who recently headlined the Wireless Festival in London, is set to perform at Creamfields in Cheshire (August 26th) and has been confirmed on the bill for this year’s iTunes Festival (September 9th).

> album title goes here < is available to pre-order from August 14

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Track listing for > album title goes here <

1. Superliminal
2. Channel 42 – deadmau5 & Wolfgang Gartner
3. The Veldt (featuring Chris James)
4. Fn Pig
5. Professional Griefers (featuring Gerard Way)
6. Maths
7. There might be coffee
8. Take care of the proper paperwork
9. Closer
10. October
11. Sleepless
12. Failbait (featuring Cypress Hill)
13. Telemiscommunications (featuring Imogen Heap)