Diplo

Diplo is the fourth studio album by American record producer Diplo. It was released through Higher Ground and Mad Decent on March 4, 2022. The album contains guest appearances from Miguel, Amtrac, Leon Bridges, Ry X, Elderbrook, Andhim, Paul Woolford, Kareen Lomax, Melé, Busta Rhymes, Lil Yachty, Sidepiece, Damian Lazarus, Jungle, TSHA, Aluna, Durante, WhoMadeWho, Seth Troxler, and Desire. While production was mainly handled by Diplo, some other guests on the album also produced the songs that they had collaborated with Diplo on, consisting of Amtrac, Andhim, Paul Woolford, Melé, Sidepiece (Nitti Gritti and Party Favor as a duo), Damian Lazarus, Jungle, TSHA, Aluna, Darunte, and Seth Troxler. Other producers consist of Maximilian Jaeger, King Henry, Rampa, Ape Drums, Cesqeaux, Nitti Gritti as a solo producer as well, Alex Metric, Vito de Luca, Santell, Philip von Boch Scully, and Aryay. The album also serves as Diplo's first solo project in about 18 years. Diplo debuted at number 2 on the US Billboard Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart with 5,500 album-equivalent units. Background Diplo felt that the album fits more "like listening to a mixtape, or like listening at a nightclub" and said that he hopes that his fans will start listening to emerging artists who contributed to the album, such as Seth Troxler, Damian Lazarus, Amtrac, Aluna, TSHA, and Jungle, among others. He also stated that he thought that he writes and arranges songs better than he produces them, so he made a lot of pop songs and changed them to dance songs by changing the tempo to "make records that are danceable". Diplo is a dance-pop, electronic, and house album. Songs Diplo kicks off with the opening track, "Don't Forget My Love", a collaboration with Miguel, which contains a pop-tinged sound over an electronic drumbeat and "tropical, plucky guitar washes over pulsating drum fills for a sun-on-skin, feel-good feeling" with "strong vocal hooks and piano-driven rhythms that build up without getting over-dramatic". "Promises" and "Looking for Me", both being collaborations with Paul Woolford and Kareen Lomax, sound similar to "Don't Forget My Love". "Let You Go", a collaboration with TSHA that also features Lomax, sounds similar to "Don't Forget My Love", as the progressive house song contains a "sunny piano and synths", meshing the "ravey breakbeats and pianos with a slippery synth hook, resulting in EDM at its most retro-fixated".