Grime music comes back for this Valentine’s Day

Love Riddims, a grime sample-based album produced by UK rising producers, will be released on 14 February.

The album is sample-based with soul and R&B songs, and uses techniques from the early 2000s, to incorporate into the percussion side of things. ‘Love Riddims’ is in mellow grime. The genre itself has come around over the past few years. Like its name, the artists of the album Wilfred, Oakland and Joe James aim to release ‘Love Riddims’ for the upcoming Valentine’s Day with love soul songs.

With drill music trending in recent years, many UK audiences want a comeback of grime. One of the album’s producers, Wilfred, talked about the change in UK rap music taste. He said: “I feel like definitely in the past year, there’s been a big shift from drill. I feel like drill was huge for a while, but especially from 2019 to 2021. People were getting bored of it and they didn’t want to hear the same rhythms and the same lyrics. So people wanted to hear something new.”

The Leeds-based DJ has collaborated with Joe James, Paul Stephan, Kibo and Implicit. He is working with Boxset Records for a reunion release with Paul Stephan. Skepta has been a big motivation for Wilfred. He said: “A lot of people hold the old grime freestyles like Skepta deep within the heart for music, because it was from a different era. It is crazy how great, even nowadays, how refreshing it still sounds now.”