Gallant

GRAMMY® Award-nominated Gallant makes a welcomed return today with his first release on Mom+Pop Music. “Coldstar.,” is an enthralling and hypnotic new song “about longing and desperately wanting to get back to a memory,” the critically acclaimed artist, musician, songwriter, and producer shares.

“Coldstar.” follows a solo hiatus from the artist renowned for his experimental edge, transcendent falsetto, and soulful melodies, who emerged into the spotlight with his critically acclaimed debut album, Ology, in 2016. His standout single, “Weight in Gold” became an anthem of vulnerability and strength, earning him a GRAMMY® nomination and solidifying his place in the contemporary R&B scene.

He went on to collaborate with artists including Dua Lipa, Zhu, Brandy, Noah Cyrus and Sufjan Stevens, and made notable appearances at major music festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, and Austin City Limits (ACL), and notable television appearances, such as “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, and “Later… with Jools Holland” and the “Today” show.

Fast forward to 2024, and Gallant is ready to re-emerge with a new perspective, new music, and new exciting artistic endeavors including the collaborative project titled “sneek” with Terrace Martin and Robert Glasper, and more recently, the Monologue Experiment, an episodic series with special guests, created and written by Gallant.

Gallant’s highly anticipated, most fearless and genre-curious body of work to date, Zinc. is out now via Mom+Pop Music.

Untethered from the major label system and free from expectations, Gallant has teamed up with producer Ariza to make his bravest body of work, creating with the precision of a chemist, GRAMMY® Award-nominated Gallant combines, co-mingles, and collates sonic elements, inciting a physical, emotional, and spiritual reaction in the process. His recognizable falsetto drips over a musical formulation fortified by glitchy beat-craft, spacey piano, incendiary guitar, and nocturnal rhythms. Ultimately, Zinc. is the album he wanted to hear, and the world needs.

Zinc. features 12 innovative, bold and genre-defying tracks, including previously released cuts “Crimes of Compassion.,” “Fly On The Wall. (Osaka Version)” which FLOOD hailed for its “nostalgic texture.,” and “Coldstar.” an enthralling and hypnotic song which VIBE observed as his “valiant return,” adding that it “reminds people why they fell for him in the first place.”

Another clear standout on the album is “Atoms,” laced with intergalactic infectiousness, the upbeat and energetic track orbits a space-funk guitar riff, blasting off into a wild wailing lead and otherworldly refrain.

“I was channeling the anger of being accused of something you didn’t do and trying to fix a problem that might not be yours to fix,” he says of the song. “It’s like you’re splitting atoms for someone else. Sonically, it has a mid-eighties palette. I’ve been testing it live, and it’s already my favorite to play.”

On the opposite side of the sonic spectrum sits the album closer, “Lucid.,” written during a period of intense depression, evident when he sings “What’s the point if I only feel alive when I’m lucid dreaming?” “It’s most indicative of how this period was for me. I was completely dissociating from reality. I’d sit in a bathtub, drink a ton of beer, and watch hours of an awards show from 1988,” Gallant admits. “I wrote the song in this zone. I was struggling with depression. I was almost scared the track was too sad for this, but I’m trying to get the fuck out of whatever hole I was in at the time. There’s an optimistic connotation, because I get the sense something better is yet to come.”