Party: ZEDD

Party: ZEDD

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ZEDD

THE ACADEMY, THURSDAY 26TH NOVEMBER

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Doors open: 7pm / 18+ show ID required.

For his first full-length release since winning the 2014 Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording, multi-platinum artist Zedd decided to deliver an album that shows the complete extent of his musicality. Zedd has announced his return to Dublin’s Academy on Thursday, 26th November. The Germany-bred musician born Anton Zaslavski explored everything from alt-rock to pop to soul to hip-hop to create an entirely new breed of electronic music. Both frenetic and graceful, intricately composed and raw with emotion, True Colors takes its title from the album’s showstopping centerpiece, a stunning and stripped-back epic inspired by Zedd’s “finally getting the courage to show the world who I really am as a musician.”

With True Colors’ lead single “I Want You to Know” (feat. Selena Gomez) having spent four weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, the follow-up to Zedd’s 2012 debut Clarity brings its central theme to life by connecting each song on the album with a specific color. “I hear color in all the music I write, and for this album I wanted to really focus in on that concept and take it to a new level,” says Zedd.
In creating True Colors, Zedd made a point of limiting his listening to artists from outside the realm of electronic music, such as Radiohead, Queen, and ‘60s/‘70s progressive rock band King Crimson. “I get a lot of inspiration from artists who work in genres whose rules are very different from my own genre,” he notes. “It really helps me break down the boundaries of what can be done with things like song structure and melody and rhythm.”
Not only essential in expanding his creativity, that boundary-breaking ultimately serves a higher purpose for Zedd. “One of my goals in making this album was to bring the focus back to the music, not just production and sounds and the whole club element of whether it’s going to make people jump,” says Zedd. “It’s important to me to make something that’s complex and in-depth and that leads the culture into a new direction, and hopefully ends up pushing the barriers of what’s possible with EDM.”
Zedd first made waves with a series of remixes of tracks by Skrillex, The Black Eyed Peas, Fatboy Slim, and Lady Gaga. He has headlined at numerous festivals including Coachella, Outside Lands, Bonnaroo, Ultra, Electric Daisy Carnival, Nocturnal, Tomorrowland, Lollapalooza, Electric Zoo, and many more.

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