The album that fueled the rise of world lure music returns with added firepower a decade later.
Earlier than lure music was a competition staple it was an rising wave, and in 2015, Blood For Mercy noticed Yellow Claw go all in. A decade later, the Dutch duo’s breakout album nonetheless hits totally different.
Blood For Mercy now returns 10 years after its seismic debut, remastered and reloaded with new remixes by way of Mad Respectable. The 18-track anniversary providing sharpens the perimeters of a mission that when dared to reshape the material of lure music.
“Lots of the songs on Blood For Mercy are a testomony to the time we got here up when the lure style was first making waves and impressed us enormously. It was first executed within the US, and from that second on, it was our purpose to go there,” Yellow Claw defined in a press release. “It began once we noticed the DJs there play our songs. Not lengthy after, we acquired booked to play exhibits ourselves. That was simply off of our SoundCloud stuff. After we acquired our break, we targeted on doing a full album to point out individuals we had been extra than simply SoundCloud producers and have the ability to make a full physique of labor.”
The unique launch helped outline EDM’s SoundCloud-era lure motion with breakout anthems like “In My Room” (with Ty Dolla $ign and Tyga) and “Catch Me” (with Flux Pavilion and Naaz), and it helped put promising artists like Cesqeaux on the map. In an period dominated by huge room home, Yellow Claw mixed hip-hop grit with explosive bass and wonky textures to bolster the motion.
“Right now, the one factor you heard in golf equipment and festivals was huge room home,” they continued. “That’s what it was all about. Individuals at labels even instructed us, ‘Why don’t you make huge room? It’s a lot simpler to get huge.’ However we adopted our hearts as a substitute and did what we thought was fucking cool. And sure, that was very, very new and insecure, however it was extra thrilling than following the herd.”
Blood For Mercy went on to high Billboard’s Heatseekers chart and earned Yellow Claw an Edison Award, one of many Netherlands’ highest music honors. Now, with lure surging again by way of a brand new era of producers, their resolution to guess on their very own sound feels more and more prophetic.
Yellow Claw’s 2025 revamp sees tracks like “Until It Hurts” and “Curler” touchdown with recent readability whereas new remixes convey an excellent broader inventive perspective, together with one from the duo’s home music alias, €URO TRA$H.
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