Major Lazer has released their fourth EP, the six-song Know No Better, which features artists like Camila Cabello, Travis Scott, Quavo, and Sean Paul.
Diplo, one-third of Major Lazer, says Know No Better was put together over the course of the last year and is "just a collection of records that we were working on" during that time. He explains that having toured around the world, the trio was able to connect with all of the different artists featured on the EP.
"We were always working on between 20 and 40 songs anyway,” explains the 38-year-old, “and it's just the six [songs] that made sense together, that felt like all the dance-oriented songs, so it was, it was easy.”
Prior to Know No Better, Major Lazer released several singles, including "Cold Water" featuring Canada’s Justin Bieber & MØ and "Run Up" featuring Nicki Minaj & Canada’s PARTYNEXTDOOR, as well as their full-length Peace is the Mission studio album (which was released in 2015).
Fans have been expecting their followup but it sounds like releasing a full album isn't as important to the trio anymore.
“I think we just decided to kind of like go more singles based. I just felt like if we keep putting out singles and people keep playing them, we'll just kind of rack it up and put together a project with a bunch of songs on it, and continue with those and have those songs featured,” Diplo said.
“It's so much easier to promote singles the way that people listen to our music, so we just want to work with that formula because it works."
Diplo says he’s always working on something – whether it's for Major Lazer or another artist, or his solo music. And while Diplo hasn't released any solo singles this year, fans should look out for some soon.
He explains that he has a hip hop focused EP coming next month.
“All a bunch of rap music,” says Diplo. “Desiigner's on it, D.R.A.M., Lil Yachty.”
“I did a lot of rap music this last year. I'm just always working on songs and there are just records that they kind of didn't fit on their album, so [I] just had to put them out myself.”
Original article by Nicole Mastrogiannis at iHeartRadio