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Posted by: LewisGT 19th November 2019, 05:45 PM

Stormzy's long-awaited 2nd album is coming out in just under a month's time.

Tracklist:

1. Big Michael
2. Audacity (feat. Headie One)
3. Crown
4. Rainfall (feat. Tiana Major9)
5. Rachael's Little Brother
6. Handsome
7. Do Better
8. Don't Forget to Breathe (feat. YEBBA) [Interlude]
9. One Second (feat. H.E.R.)
10. Pop Boy (feat. Aitch)
11. Own It (feat. Ed Sheeran & Burna Boy)
12. Wiley Flow
13. Bronze
14. Superheroes
15. Lessons
16. Vossi Bop


No Sounds Of The Skeng

Posted by: Jack 19th November 2019, 06:15 PM

Stormzy and Ed Sheeran for Christmas #01? Ugh

Posted by: Bjork 19th November 2019, 06:21 PM

No please, Xmas nightmare more like it

Posted by: Hadji 19th November 2019, 09:10 PM

I don’t understand why SOTS ain’t on there

Posted by: SLlewellyn 19th November 2019, 10:16 PM

Stormzy vs. Harry Styles that week... Interesting. Both could be denied the #1 album of course, depending on what’s selling well in the run up to Christmas.

Posted by: Hadji 19th November 2019, 11:21 PM

Stormzy will have streaming advantage in the race for #1

Posted by: Steve201 19th November 2019, 11:57 PM

Interesting times - December the new November in terms of big releases since the albums market collapsed!

Posted by: Hiyaluv 20th November 2019, 10:50 PM

Why the flipping heck is Sounds of the Skeng not on it? That song really heightened my anticipation for the album. I can only imagine it doesn't fit with the rest of the songs (bad) or he has done another similarly intense grime banger that blows it out of the water (good). Has he written it out of history because it underperformed a bit? Wiley Flow did worse but that was more of a promotional single.

Posted by: Bré 20th November 2019, 10:57 PM

'Sounds Of The Skeng' being left off while 'Wiley Flow' made it on does seem a bit weird, if anything the latter felt more like a throwaway loose single. It may just be that he's completely abandoning grime for the album I guess which would be a shame.

That list of features does not really fill me with much hype for this album, although I am looking forward to hearing the Ed collab (and of course Stormzy has plenty of great songs without features anyway).

Posted by: lewistgreen 21st November 2019, 04:06 PM

Own It is out tomorrow!

Posted by: Cqmerqn 22nd November 2019, 07:55 AM

Own It is very good, surprisingly! #1 please

Posted by: lewistgreen 22nd November 2019, 07:58 AM

Straight to A List on Radio 1

Posted by: Bjork 22nd November 2019, 09:35 AM

Burma boy sounds always great on everything, pity sheeran does not

Posted by: Bré 22nd November 2019, 01:46 PM

I like both Ed and Burna Boy's contributions to this but I think Stormzy himself lets it down unfortunately. I just don't really care much for him on songs like this (reminds me a bit of 'Shine Girl' with MoStack which I didn't like at all, this is better than that but it's still just decent on first listen, definitely the weakest of the singles he's dropped this year on first impressions).

Posted by: Soapsfan20 22nd November 2019, 04:41 PM

This is a Bop !

Posted by: Hiyaluv 22nd November 2019, 09:06 PM

Not feeling Own It. I can't bear Sheeran anyway but this just sounds like countless other forgettable landfill urban songs that have hung around the bottom reaches of the Top 40 for a month or so over the past couple of years. I wanted to like it! Starting to feel much less excited about this record :-(

Posted by: lewistgreen 22nd November 2019, 09:42 PM

Posted by: Hadji 2nd December 2019, 12:47 AM

I hope the release of Stormzy's album can send OI to #1

Posted by: Steve201 2nd December 2019, 09:15 AM

Did tbf bunk it'd be your thing Hadji, I'm not feeling it yet myself.

Posted by: CaptainMackxmas 9th December 2019, 04:05 PM

Stormzy, I'm guessing he'll be doing his utmost to get the Xmas double won't he after what happened with 'Shut Up'.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 10th December 2019, 12:00 AM

He may well be successful - not sure what his album will sell next week but can see it being big!

Posted by: lewis🎄green 11th December 2019, 07:40 PM

Audacity is available now

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 11th December 2019, 10:37 PM

I genuinely think he could take the double next week if he pushes for the Christmas number 1 like he did with Shut up!

Come on Stormzy smash it like you did with Shut up!

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 11th December 2019, 11:16 PM

Not long now for this...

Posted by: Crazy Chris-tmas 12th December 2019, 12:40 AM

Can't see him beating Ladbaby but can see him getting the No.1 album.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 12th December 2019, 12:59 AM

Yeh it'll be between him and Harry and his streams will donit for him!

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 12th December 2019, 01:00 PM

I’m the same! Sounds odd but I think the quality of the song from Lad Baby might play a big part. If it’s beyond novelty and just absolutely crap then it might end up slowing after the weekend.

Big For Your Boots had a big increase on album release week when his debut was released so that might help him too.

Posted by: troylovesmusic 12th December 2019, 06:41 PM

He will beat Harry for sure !

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 13th December 2019, 12:22 PM

Harry ahead on downloads so far!

Posted by: Bjork 13th December 2019, 12:36 PM

obviously

Posted by: troylovesmusic 13th December 2019, 04:54 PM

I’m pretty sure Stormzy will overtake at some point and would be ahead on streaming and physicals.

Posted by: JosephCarey 13th December 2019, 05:21 PM

Harry will almost definitely be ahead on physicals. I think it could be a close race but fully expecting Stormzy to be #1.

The only song I've heard from the album so far (singles aside) is the one where he sings the Tracy Beaker theme... he almost deserves the #1 for that alone

Posted by: 𝕮𝖖𝖒x 13th December 2019, 06:00 PM

Stormzy #1 iTunes

Posted by: CaptainMackxmas 14th December 2019, 02:01 PM

Approved by Jacqueline Wilson.

Posted by: lewis🎄green 16th December 2019, 06:28 PM

Some good tracks on this



He was on Radio 2 this morning, Live Lounge on Radio 1 and will be co-hosting with Annie Mac on Radio 1 tonight. KING catering to all fans

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 16th December 2019, 06:36 PM

This album is SO GOOD’ it’s amazing body of work.

It genuinely deserves the top spot, it’s probably even better than his debut.

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 16th December 2019, 08:52 PM

Legend ❤️

Posted by: Jonjo 16th December 2019, 08:57 PM

Are there any songs in a similar sort of vein to Blinded By Your Grace?

Posted by: Mr. C. Joel 16th December 2019, 09:07 PM

Do Better...

It’s not entirely the same but it’s probably the only song that’s compared.

‘Lessons’ is a great track too!

Posted by: Michael Bubré 19th December 2019, 03:10 AM

Just given this album a listen, seems he already released most of the best songs on here as singles - out of the album tracks 'Rachael's Little Brother' is great and 'Handsome' is a decent standout too, as for everything else... it's a bit eh, not terrible for the most part but too many songs that are a little on the boring side. I can't really get into Stormzy's 'softer' songs much at all ('Crown' is the only one I've really cared for) and there are quite a few of those among the album tracks. But even among the other more banger-style album tracks, 'Big Michael' and 'Bronze' are just decent, 'Rainfall' is far too repetitive (although I did like the 'Shackles (Praise You)' sample x) and 'Pop Boy' is easily the worst song on the album, it's just a much weaker carbon copy of 'Vossi Bop' with a pretty terrible hook and a subpar feature from Aitch. Disappointing ~

But on the positive side I think 'Audacity' may be my favourite song on the album, really glad that he did release a song like this as a single, he needs to do that more often. And I am still really liking 3 of the other 4 singles (and 'Sounds Of The Skeng' which I really don't understand being left off this).

Posted by: ChristmaSteve201 19th December 2019, 09:46 AM

I actually like his softer side which is kind of gospel which is class. Blinded By Your Grace was one of my favourites of the debut.

Posted by: Mack. 13th January 2020, 03:17 PM

What's this Stormzy and Wiley beef?

Posted by: Steve201 14th January 2020, 02:13 AM

He has andong on the album called 'Wiley Flow'

My fav track is now Pop Boy!

Posted by: Nick F1 1st April 2020, 11:12 AM

waitt Own It is actually decentish

Posted by: Steve201 2nd April 2020, 07:43 PM

Is there another single coming? Want to return to this album soon.

'Lessons' seems to be on Capital for some reason.

Posted by: awardinary 4th May 2020, 11:06 PM

Joel Corry has announced a remix for Own It coming Wednesday.

Posted by: lewistgreen 4th May 2020, 11:24 PM

Oh and there was me thinking he’d remixed a new single when I was talking about it the other day

Posted by: awardinary 5th May 2020, 10:43 AM

Yeah I wish you were right and I was wrong.

Even before the official remix comes from Joel tomorrow, there’s an unofficial dance remix by Sonny Fodera in soundcloud.

Posted by: awardinary 6th May 2020, 10:41 AM

And here’s Joel’s remix!

Posted by: Liam.k. 8th May 2020, 11:14 AM

I didn't get this song at all but that Joel Corry remix is a banger!