Major Lazer Announce Release Date For 'Free The Universe' LP

It's come at last, it has come at last! After months upon months upon months of rumours, lies, announces and speculation - we can finally announce the release dates for MAJOR LAZER's upcoming sophomore LP, Free The Universe.

We wanted to come up with some ridiculously witty way to announce the dates to you, but turns out, someone who has been hired to write Major Lazer's biography already has...

"Years after the zombie apocalypse ravaged the galaxy; Major Lazer went into isolation after bringing peace and order to Earth. With the help of a mysterious shadow government called Cinco he was cryogenically frozen as a safeguard for the future’s wellbeing. Despite a great many years of pursuing peace on the planet, a new threat began to loom on the horizon and the commando was brought out of sleep by the Committee of Five. This intergalactic group faced an opponent that only Major Lazer could defend against: his former superior and Commander General Rubbish.

Rubbish had come out of deep space hiding with a new weapon...Terror Lazor and was set out to enslave and capture all of Earth's allies to seize inter-galactic planetary control and then destroy Earth. With dwindling resources to defend Earth and its allies, the Committee of Five brought Major Lazer out of cryogenic slumber. He was assigned a partner, the female assassin known only as Knife Fight."

Um.. so... yeah.. that's one way of putting it...

We put it like this. The now one man production show of Major Lazer (via Diplo) is finally releasing the follow up to 2009's Guns Don't Kill People... Lazers Do. It's called Free The Universe, it features the already massive singles 'Jah No Partial (Feat Flux Pavilion)', 'Watch Out For This (Bumaye)' and 'Get Free (Feat. Amber Coffman)' which we all know was #6 in last year's Triple J’s Hottest 100. It also features other colabs with Bruno Mars, Tyga, Flux Pavillion, Wynter Gordon, Shaggy, Wyclef, Dev and not to mention the brand new track 'Jessica' which features Ezra Koening from Vampire Weekend.

And most importantly, it's due for release 12th of April via Mad Decent/Warner.

Yep, that's all we have. That's all we need to get excited. But if you're a greedy guts and want some more - just have a look at Sampology's latest video remix of Lazer's 'Watch Out For This (Bumaye)'.

See you on April 12th.

Words: Tom Hutchins