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Skala is the brand new album from Reading-based, rising wordsmith Songer.
At just, 22 he’s recorded three of the most watched Blackbox freestyles of all time, collaborated with artists like Bad Boy Chiller Crew and Vibe Chemistry, and released three album-length mixtapes, amassing more than 50 million streams on Spotify alone. He can rap over any beat — hip-hop, garage, drum & bass — and is as natural a lyricist as you’ll find in the UK.
Coming from just outside Reading, he represents something of an anomaly in a scene dominated by London rappers. But his last album The Sunrise Project was streamed over 22 million times, with no playlist support, and as he prepares to release his next album Skala, he is poised to blow.
Songer dropped his debut mixtape Dream Workz in 2019, a thoughtful mix of club bangers and artful storytelling including the incredible no-hook soul tune ‘All I Can Do’. Its follow up, the heady Lyrics For Sanity, dropped in 2020, before 2021’s The Sunrise Project introduced Songer to the UK rap scene in earnest, pairing lyrics about football and mental health with drum & bass beats and R&B choruses.
On Skala, Songer prepares to crash the mainstream. It finds him equally pensive, insightful and energetic, rapping about love and society over classical piano, boom-bap and garage. “I’ll never be restricted by any type of genre or any tempo,” he says. “I’ll just pick up a pen and I’ll write. I didn’t try to be an artist… I felt like I already was one. What I want to do is change the world without having to change who I am.
At just, 22 he’s recorded three of the most watched Blackbox freestyles of all time, collaborated with artists like Bad Boy Chiller Crew and Vibe Chemistry, and released three album-length mixtapes, amassing more than 50 million streams on Spotify alone. He can rap over any beat — hip-hop, garage, drum & bass — and is as natural a lyricist as you’ll find in the UK.
Coming from just outside Reading, he represents something of an anomaly in a scene dominated by London rappers. But his last album The Sunrise Project was streamed over 22 million times, with no playlist support, and as he prepares to release his next album Skala, he is poised to blow.
Songer dropped his debut mixtape Dream Workz in 2019, a thoughtful mix of club bangers and artful storytelling including the incredible no-hook soul tune ‘All I Can Do’. Its follow up, the heady Lyrics For Sanity, dropped in 2020, before 2021’s The Sunrise Project introduced Songer to the UK rap scene in earnest, pairing lyrics about football and mental health with drum & bass beats and R&B choruses.
On Skala, Songer prepares to crash the mainstream. It finds him equally pensive, insightful and energetic, rapping about love and society over classical piano, boom-bap and garage. “I’ll never be restricted by any type of genre or any tempo,” he says. “I’ll just pick up a pen and I’ll write. I didn’t try to be an artist… I felt like I already was one. What I want to do is change the world without having to change who I am.
Tracklist
1. Skala
2. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
3. That's Money
4. Big Stepper
5. Double Tops
6. Bittersweet Sing For Me
7. Ease The Pain (feat. Mani DM & Twyce)
8. Golden (Soul Food)
9. Soft Spot (feat. Daneo)
10. Bulletproof Dreams
11. 04:59 (feat. D Double E)
12. LSD
13. Kids, pt. 2
14. Dancing In The Rain
15. Vertigo