Labrinth: Euphoria (Original Score From the HBO Series) (Vinyl LP)
Labrinth has had a busy couple of years, scoring his first TV series with HBO's Euphoria, releasing an album with his new supertrio, LSD (with Sia and Diplo), and co-writing the Beyoncé song Spirit as part of Disney's recent Lion King movie. This wide array of projects is nothing new for the London-based singer-songwriter-producer, whose music spans electronic, hip-hop, R&B, gospel, and jungle, among other sounds. Labrinth attributes this genre-mashing to the influence of his childhood home - an unofficial music school, as he puts it, where his eight siblings each came in listening to a giant grab bag of artists. I'm this 12-year-old kid being a sponge to all of these energies, he says. It's like a bag of Skittles when I'm creating music. His style got the attention of Sam Levinson, creator of Euphoria - which paved the way for Labrinth's opportunity to score the show. His soundtrack, due out in album form this Friday, hums with soft electricity, perfectly complementing the jour