GRiZ and his crew recorded on the move in studios across the country, from his Colorado bedroom to a house overlooking the Hollywood Hills, from Detroit’s famed Assemble Sound to a patio in Northern Michigan, live onstage at Detroit’s Masonic Temple to half a dozen stops in New Orleans. Like its predecessor – a #1 success on the iTunes Store’s “Top Electronic Albums” chart despite also being available for free download via BitTorrent – GOOD WILL PREVAIL was written during a period of intense touring. “Whether it’s music or videos or parties, I’m always making stuff.” “I’m a person that’s always creating,” GRiZ says. GRiZ began work on GOOD WILL PREVAIL immediately upon completing his chart-topping 2015 breakthrough, SAY IT LOUD, continuing to tinker with it all the way through the Uber ride to the mastering session. Further releases include mixtapes and a series of spectacular singles – including “A Fine Way To Die (Feat. 2011 saw the release of GRiZ’s debut album, END OF THE WORLD PARTY, followed in 2012 by MAD LIBERATION and 2013’s REBEL ERA, each notable for their increasingly inventive brand of high-energy future funk. He began playing alto sax in elementary school, but soon expanded his personal toolkit to include creative studio manipulation and house rockin’ DJ sets. You can’t change the world if you don’t try.”īorn Grant Kwiecinski, GRiZ grew up in thrall to nearby Detroit’s long lineage of musical innovation, spanning funk, soul, blues, rock ‘n’ roll, and electronic dance music. We need as many good people here as possible. I’ve got friends talking about moving to Canada and I’m like, that’s the last thing we need. “We’re on the cusp of a crazy presidential election, it’s like we’re looking down the barrel of a gun. GOOD WILL PREVAIL is, “a don’t give up album,” says GRiZ. “That’s exactly what the GRiZ project represents.” ![]() “That’s what gives this music its character,” he says. Big Gigantic).” GRiZ has crafted a genuinely crowd-pleasing, groundbreaking set of future funk all his own, pulling back on EDM’s expected synthetics to showcase his unique artistry’s deepest human elements. Leo Napier)” and the smash, “Good Times Roll (Ft. Now, with the new GOOD WILL PREVAIL, the Detroit-born, Denver-based DJ, producer and saxophonist has forged his most heartfelt and personal work thus far, expertly uniting the electric with the organic on singles like “Before I Go (Ft. GRiZ has been reinventing and deconstructing contemporary electronic dance music in his own image for more than half a decade, fusing elements of funk, soul, dance, electronica and hip-hop with his own lush saxmanship.
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