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The buzziest a part of Euphoria is not the breakout stars or the darkish, controversial storylines — it is the music, created by Labrinth. The person behind the soundtrack is somebody you may need heard of earlier than, however by no means on this scale.
Born Timothy Lee McKenzie, the English musician, composer, and rapper has been on the music scene for a couple of decade at this level. He began out his profession as a producer and songwriter, which introduced him to the eye of Simon Cowell. In 2010, Cowell signed Labrinth to his label, Syco, changing into the primary singer in six years that received a take care of Cowell with out having first appeared on one among his actuality TV music competitions. His debut single, “Let the Solar Shine,” got here out in 2010, reaching No. three on the UK charts. His first studio album, Digital Earth, arrived in full in April 2012.
Since then, Labrinth has been fairly busy! Though his second studio album, Take Me to the Reality, has been delayed a number of occasions, he is been showing as a visitor artist on a wide selection of music. Amongst his appearances are Tinie Tempah’s “Let It Be,” The Weeknd’s “Losers,” and “To Be Human,” a duet with Sia on the 2017 Surprise Girl soundtrack. The latter collaboration led to Labrinth becoming a member of the supergroup ensemble LSD, consisting of himself, Sia, and Diplo. Their first album, Labrinth, Sia & Diplo Current . . . LSD, arrived in April 2019.
For Euphoria, Labrinth is doing his most bold work thus far. He is credited because the lead composer on the sequence and has been working carefully with sequence creator Sam Levinson to get the sound and content material excellent for the a number of tracks that he is written particularly for the present.
“He received the best way my mind works musically, and I understood the best way his mind works musically. I did not even must see the present earlier than we began working collectively, he simply received what I needed to do musically, and it simply so occurs it was for this crazy-ass, superb HBO present,” Labrinth instructed Selection in June. The end result has been a rating full of distinctive sounds and mash-ups of genres to sort out the wants of the storylines and characters. A couple of of the characters particularly spoke to him musically.
“I bear in mind Kat, one of many essential characters on the present, she’s a little bit of a geek, however a really intelligent geek. I needed to make a document that nearly expressed a few of that vitality of being the weirdo, the geek that no one’s into however is semi-cool as effectively,” he defined to Selection. Nonetheless, Kat wasn’t the most important inspiration of all. “I believe I actually resonated with Zendaya’s character Rue probably the most. The nervousness factor, you’ll be able to expertise it even with out drug use in so many alternative issues, particularly within the music business. That is a large factor that I’ve skilled, even simply having somebody converse on psychological well being and despair, all this stuff. It was very nice to see that perspective being represented on the display screen.”
Whereas he hasn’t confirmed if he’ll be again to attain the just lately ordered second season, Labrinth has nothing however fantastic issues to say in regards to the expertise of writing Euphoria‘s music.
“Euphoria has challenged me creatively like nothing I’ve made earlier than in my life with genres I’ve by no means labored with earlier than. It is not that I believed I can not do them, I simply by no means thought to even enterprise in that course. So this has been unbelievable for me to be actually a nomad simply exploring the musical world and have somebody difficult me. So the album’s received a broad vary of types and so many genres, I name it a bag of Skittles.”
