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Griff has announced her 14 track debut album vertigo, which will be released on Warner Music on July 19th. The physical versions of the album include an exclusive live version of So Fast, recorded at her soldout Earth Hackney show last year.Before Griffs debut album had a name or its titular first single, even it had a feeling vertigo. That pitofyourstomach, upisdown sense that the world is spinning faster than you can keep up with, and your own place in it has never felt less secure. Its a journey of selfdiscovery that Griff has taken fans on ever since, building the three volumes of her landmark project in realtime and weaving songs that resonated with the vertigo arc into work that moves through melancholy and heartache into healing and joy. A comingofage album shaped for complex times, vertigo witnesses Griff scaling new creative heights without compromising the handstitched, homemade magic that first marked her out as British Pops most modern, exciting voice.With a 360approach on everything from production, fashion and design to the spiral motif long connecting vertigo in plain sight right down to her signature hair style Griffs debut album turns the tumultuousness of young adulthood into a source of power. Latest single Miss Me Too is a euphoric, existential banger about the littlediscussed irony of losing confidence as you supposedly grow older and wiser, and was accompanied by a beautifully choreographed video physically exorcizing such emotions. Throughout the record, the BRITs Rising Star winner draws on her sideways originstory, from her unorthodox ChineseJamaican outsiderstatus growing up to launching an international music career from the confines of her bedroom. That tenacious, nononsense talent always wise beyond her years also sounds crucially like she is living free of expectation, and moving through a world in which there is no one way to make your debut album or to be yourself.Introducing the record today, Griff comments the album is about vertigo as an emotion and the dizziness and upside down feeling of heartache. I wanted to drop this project in parts from insular low feelings Vol.1 to desperate euphoria Vol.2 and with volume three, the full story. Griff Vinyl is available for home delivery from Vinyl Records London, only £27 +P&P