The 27-year-old Northampton renegade Slowthai has signed a new publishing deal with BMG publishing. This agreement will see Slowthai (real name Tyron Frampton) pledge all future releases to the publishers, including his forthcoming third studio album that has fans around the world buzzing with anticipation.

The MC had struck gold with his debut album Nothing Great About Britain which launched straight into the top ten right off the bat (not to mention a nod from the Mercury Prize panel). Since then Frampton has earned over 2.8 million monthly Spotify listeners and has collaborated with a host of stellar names such as; James Blake, A$AP Rocky, Dominic Fike, Skepta, Fontaines DC, and Gorillaz.

Tom Cater, the BMG Senior Manager of A&R Publishing in the UK said in a statement; “We are big fans of Slowthai here at BMG and have been watching him closely since his first LP. We can’t wait for what he does next.” 

Hugo Turquet (BMG SVP publishing UK) added; “It’s an honour to welcome Slowthai to BMG. He is a true spokesperson for what is going on in today’s world and is able to mix and cross genres in a way which is quite unique. The world is definitely coming around to Slowthai and it is exciting to be able to work with him at this stage of his career.” 

With his sophomore LP Tyron becoming his first ever number 1 album in February 2021, Slowthai described the feat saying; “It just felt like it was meant to happen – and it was validation that I got there by working hard and not changing anything about myself.”

Though his next full album still lacks an official release date, Frampton stated; “I’ve got the name – but I can’t say it yet – and I’ve written most of it,”

He added elsewhere; “I got about 50 percent, I would say 75 percent [finished]. I’m so early in making it and I’ve got so much time now especially, that I wouldn’t like to put a number on it, but it’s already underway. […] I’ve become obsessed with a lot of songwriting and structures and how things are switching and chord changes and stuff and melody is something that’s important to me, so I want to explore that avenue a lot more, but then I want it to be left. I don’t want it to be like anything you’ve ever heard before, but I still want it to have them cliche schemes or themes, because it’s gotta come back to a point, you’ve always gotta have a point.”