Casper Grey shares new single ‘Real Free Born’ ft. Izamard,

Credit: Somitude

Casper Grey. He’s your mum’s favourite writer, your brother’s favourite rapper, your nan’s favourite actor and your best friend’s favourite designer – an Eastend born-and-bred jack of all trades. Today, he shares the latest extract from his forthcoming debut album, Jungian Junglist to be released November 8th on Kingdome Recordings. ‘REAL FREE BORN’ sees the polymath join forces with masked East London rapper Izambard. Vitriolic, breathless bars are foregrounded by an altogether haunting chorus and industrial drones.

The new track is accompanied by the news of Grey’s Post Genre Party headline performance at The Glove That Fits on November 6th, where he will be supported by underground crowd-igniters Furious Styles and The JLB.

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Casper Grey’s music reckons with the perennial themes of guilt, repentance, virtue and sin which have commanded the stage for centuries. These instincts are owed to Grey’s reputation as a rising force in British cinema, being one of the few actors chosen for a professional scholarship at Top Boy star and So Solid Crew alumnus Ashley Walters’ esteemed drama school, Kingdom School of Arts.

Speaking on the track, he shares: “Most of us are repeat repent offenders… We rarely learn.

Once we feel temporarily cleansed and lighter, we often sin again and again. A habitual placebo now lives in the place of lasting change, an illusion that enables a confusion in the duality of what’s good and bad to contradict itself until the only thing that feels real is the high one gets from being bad.” 

‘REAL FREE BORN’ calls on the talents of grime futurist Izambard who has spent recent years performing across the capital’s squat party and warehouse circuits as well as casting a long shadow across God Colony’s Cult mixtape alongside the likes of Flohio, Mykki Blanco and Cosima. His audacious vision has been described by DAZED as “a hard-edged industrial sound… with its spitting honesty and strictly no bullshit attitude.”

The announcement of Jungian Junglist arrives after the swell of critical acclaim following forerunning single ‘TRU’SAY’, an anti-hero’s monologue that plays out like a threat; ‘BRAT’, a cutting electro-punk collision with hip-hop sensibilities; and ‘NU GENNA HUE’, a particularly vicious and dislocating strain of UK rap. Together, with ‘REAL FREE BORN’, they stoke a feeling of foreboding which looms large across the album.

As well as writing and producing his musical output, he self-directs and produces all visuals and creative direction for the project, channelling inspiration from the unflinching character portrayals within the work of Grey’s heroes such as Jonathan Glazer & Ken Loach weaving in the surrealist, internet-age paranoia of constant surveillance.

Alongside his solo projects and acting, Casper Grey is half the force behind production duo Eastend Gravy whose genre-annihilating sound featured on Rihanna’s latest Fenty Hair campaign. He is also the founder and resident MC come selector at the new and equally revolutionary bi-monthly club night Post Genre Party where transgressive sounds cut through the internet blur dragging its audience into a brave new sonic world.

Beyond music, Casper is also co-designer in the graphic outfit Somitude; the artistic duo behind the album artwork for the critically-acclaimed debut album by multidisciplinary icon Isamaya Ffrench.

Stay tuned for Casper Grey’s next act.