Welsh artist MINAS has unveiled the penultimate single ‘Stress’ from forthcoming EP ‘Grazes’, out next month. The release coincides with two stateside festival appearances this year, New Colossus Festival and SXSW.
‘Stress’, featuring fellow artist and friend Razkid, follows previous singles ‘The Public Ain’t Spoken’ and ‘Chatty Patty’. It centres MINAS’ big beat, punk-rap ambitions; a spiky, barely-contained exhalation about modern dread which has taken on a new lease of life on the road.
Of his latest offering, MINAS says: “Stress is one of our most favourite songs to play live, my good friend and fellow artist Razkid (who I’ve produced for years) loved the song so one day I just said, write a 16 then and let’s do a remix. Performing it live with one of my best mates is such an ace feeling, the song brought a whole new side to him and his performance that I’d not seen before and now we try to get him to jump up for it at every show we do. When we recorded it and did a new mixdown on the song, I added a final section and really tried to push the sound into an almost unsettling and hard to listen to place. I wanted to fully create the sound that conveyed the true feeling of dread and panic you get when you check your financial situation to find it worse off than you expected. It can really shake your foundations and you just feel completely cornered, panicking about how you’ll get through the next week let alone the next month or year.”
Tune in now.
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