Blanco

Blanco’s first project, 2021’s City Of God, was a landmark moment in UK drill. Although not really drill at all, it was a truly unique piece of work from one of its founding fathers. As underground drill shited and a new wave of incomers began to transform it into the chart-conquering mainstream phenomenon it is today, Blanco was letting the world know that things had changed. Baile funk was a big and audible inluence on that project, but what it really signalled was a desire to stretch beyond any one genre. “I don’t like to put tags on myself,” he says. “I’m not really stuck to one genre.”

Now there’s a new project on the way and it’s not necessarily a sequel to City Of God. “City Of God had a concept,” he explains. “is one kinda has a concept, but at the same time, these are songs that I’ve put together. I don’t like to call my releases mixtapes or albums, I just call them projects. But if I had to pick, I’d say City Of God was more like an album and this one sounds more like a mixtape.”