Already an artist admired for both his searing social commentary (see the breakthrough hit ‘Blood // Water’) and heart-breaking true life stories (the fan memorial ‘Heather’), grandson is going darker, harder and more uncompromising than ever before as he prepares to release his third full-length album ‘INERTIA’.

‘INERTIA’ is the sound of grandson becoming lean and ferocious. The overarching theme is a clamour for what he calls a “growing need for class solidarity that can be achieved by seeing that across any political spectrum, people stand to benefit from the consolidation of power in the hands of the many against the few.” That concept is set to music which pumps the heart before engaging the mind: colossal heavyweight riffs, raging, blood-vessel busting raps, soaring hooks, and the philosophy that music that fights for social justice should sound like a rallying cry.

For grandson the inspiration that “really resparked my sense of purpose as an artist” was two-fold. On one hand there was the broader cultural context of the new political landscape: “the celebritization of billionaires and the rise of dark money behind politics,” plus everything that accompanied it, from the assault on queer rights to the unmasking of modern fascism and misogyny preying on masculinity to the undermining of the Palestinian solidarity movement. He felt disenchanted by the left, too. For years he had towed the party line, teaming up with Headcount, organizing thousands of voter registrations, only to watch the same corruption, insider trading, lobbying and anti working class agenda run rampant. Watching social issues get weaponized to advance corporate agendas around the world- directly impacting the communities that championed his music and resisted fiercely alongside him- refocused his efforts as a writer and social commentator to let the personal storytelling take a back seat and let the anger flow.