Born in a Spanish and Afro-American artistic family of a jazz saxophonist-father and a music manager-mother, Murray had a childhood soundtracked by the music of Sly and the Family Stone<\/a>, Marvin Gaye, Minnie Ripperton and John Coltrane<\/a>, rather than the teen-pop favoured by most of her peers. The newly 20 year old Parisian artist released her debut EP I Was Wrong<\/em> in 2020, a jazz and pop-influenced R&B project; she is now preparing a new EP called Twisted Bases<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Written in the summer of 2020 while in residency in Portugal and recorded in Paris with Sacha Rudy, Twisted Bases<\/em> will offer a tantalising taster of Murray\u2019s vast creative range. The artist has already unveiled two tracks from the EP: the bouncy and club-ready \u201cLike It Nasty\u201d, and \u201cToo Much To Taste\u201d, a euphoric dance-pop song to be discovered below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201c60-year-old white people think [the industry] is still the same as 20 years ago<\/em>,\u201d she explains matter-of-factly, speaking from her apartment in the 20th arrondissement. \u201cThey have rules, and I think these rules need to have a little update. And I think we – people of colour, young people, people that know the community – I think we are the ones that need to start rewriting these rules, because we’re the ones making the music. And, unlike them, we know there\u2019s no set recipe for a banger<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Twisted Bases<\/em> <\/em>by Crystal Murray, out on February 11, 2022 via Spin Desire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n