Lloyd tru album cover4/22/2024 Unfortunately, a naked body is seen as exploitive or nasty. I wanted to make it as tasteful as possible. "I don’t know if I really captured it with the artwork I hope people don’t see it and think that I'm trying to sell or degrade myself. Let’s strip everything down to its simplest form possible in order to capture the best work possible. When we record, let’s take the Auto-Tune out let’s create songs based around a story first. Fuck it, let’s take the clothes out of the equation. Let’s take Photoshop out of the equation, let’s take all the filters out of the equation. On the Tru EP: "The path is to eliminate tricks and gimmicks. Oftentimes when I was making the music I'd travel out to different locations that would've been hard to discover with any other vehicle… You take a dirt road, no cell phone service. I would go to those places and just write my music." And that’s probably the only way I would have found it is with the jeep. "I got this military jeep that I take off-road a lot. It would feel so free.’ I said, you know what, that’s what I’m going to do for the cover art for Tru. I would say to myself, ‘Man, I wish I could just run around here naked. I would go there and oftentimes no one would be there. And that was just a little place I would go and hide out and write songs with my guitar in North Georgia. I want to be able to have things that are alive, that are growing, around me when I’m creating my music. On the location: "I don’t want to hide, and I don’t want to be trapped in a world of cars and buildings and machines. Insecurities of the body, being free in a public place." All the inhibitions, the insecurities that usually exist in a person to me it’s no exception. Although what you see on the outside is a guy who is apparently balls-to-the-wall naked in the woods near a waterfall, it’s really a moment for me to conquer all the fears that I might have had. On the cover art: “It was really more of an introspective thing. For now, check out the tracklist for the EP below and read what Lloyd has to say about the creation of the cover art, the inspiration behind his new music, and how that cameo on Donald Glover's Atlanta came about. 9 a pre-order for the project will be available in the coming days while the title track (along with the 2 Chainz-assisted remix) is currently up for purchase on iTunes. The song offered up an introspective look at his life away from the spotlight, and more importantly showed a renewed focus on what matters to the veteran R&B singer who has built a career on honesty.įans will get to experience more of this in musical form when Lloyd releases his Tru EP later this year, and today Complex shares the cover art and tracklist for the project. This past spring, Lloyd released “Tru,” his first official single in nearly five years.
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