Aaron Frazer - Into The Blue *Pre-Order

Release Date Friday 28th June 2024
All pre-orders will be dispatched/made ready for collection on that day.

“Into The Blue is the clearest portrait of who I am as an artist. It’s me through
and through,” says multi-instrumentalist Aaron Frazer. A daring blend of soul, psychedelia,
spaghetti western, disco, gospel and hip-hop, Into the Blue represents the impressive range
of Frazer’s sonic talents. Frazer maintains the unmistakable falsetto and classic songwriting
he’s known for, but plants Into the Blue firmly in the now with a hip-hop mentality at its core,
weaving together genres and production techniques to form something new.
Into The Blue was conceived, like so many classic records, out of actual
heartbreak. Frazer moved cross-country from Brooklyn to Los Angeles and embarked on a
journey that’s reflected in the album’s themes of grief, loneliness, and searching for healing.
“Into The Blue really means heading into the unknown. That has been the last year of my
life and I’m still in the blue,” Frazer explains. “But there are also songs here that celebrate
love and the giddiness of a new relationship and all that. That’s part of a breakup to me,
processing the whole thing, remembering the things that were right as much as the things
that were wrong.”
Frazer wrote on every track and played several live instruments on the
album. The title track, “Into The Blue”, is a haunting, resolute anthem, combining cinematic
strings and tough-as-nails breakbeats as Frazer heads west. “Here I go, to a place where the
broken heart knows,” he sings. “It’s all I can do. Back into the blue.” “Payback” is an explosive
dancefloor heater, featuring shimmering tambourines and driving bass lines. Northern soul
drums meet snarling fuzz guitar, hurdling towards its epic conclusion.
The album features moments of towering arrangements, recalling David
Axelrod and Ennio Merricone, balanced by rawness, incorporating iPhone recordings
and one-take vocals. For Into the Blue, Frazer enlisted Grammy-winner Alex Goose as co-
producer, known for his crate-digging samples and collaborations with hip-hop artists like
Freddie Gibbs, Madlib and Brockhampton. Frazer also experimented with samples for the
first time on a record, drawing from unexpected sources like 90s R&B group Hi-Five.
Though Into the Blue is born out of heartbreak, Frazer hopes it leaves listeners with a sense
of optimism. “You know, you can still laugh on a day when you’re grieving,” he says, “there’s
no peaks without valleys,” he says, but Into The Blue sees Aaron Frazer at new heights.

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