Dhruv - Private Blizzard (2024) [Hi-Res]

Recorded in Nashville with Grammy-nominated producer JT DALY (Noah Kahan, Bully, Benson Boone), Private Blizzard reflects the full range of emotions Dhruv felt as he set out to make his debut album from a place of creative honesty. “I started in a place of numbness, and I didn’t really understand why I felt that way,” Dhruv shares. “The songs that I started out with were trying to help me unpack that feeling. The further along I got, I started feeling better—I just felt lighter.”

Allowing intuition to guide him more than in the past, Dhruv focused on developing his vocal range to give himself a larger canvas to express his changing emotions. From a sonic perspective, he and Daly worked together to arrive at a sound that incorporates classic live elements while retaining a modern feel. The result is an album that, above all else, feels true to Dhruv.

Born and raised in Singapore and of Indian descent, Dhruv’s fascination with music dates back to the age of five, hearing Bollywood soundtracks on the T.V. at his grandmother’s house. After years of writing songs privately, he put his studies at Yale on hold to make a go of music in earnest and began producing from his bedroom.

Dhruv burst into the spotlight after his 2019 single “DOUBLE TAKE” exploded globally, racking up hundreds of millions of streams worldwide. Soon after, he signed with Little Worry and RCA and, in 2022, he released his debut EP RAPUNZEL. He’s toured with Joji, sold out headline stops across the U.S. and the U.K. and a handful of dates in Asia in 2023, including two rare headline shows in India. NME praised Dhruv for creating “vital, anthemic” pop, while PAPER celebrated the power of his “intimate love songs” and CLASH hailed his “open and completely relatable” songwriting.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Dhruv - Ode to Boredom (2:17)
1.02 - Dhruv - California Winter (3:08)
1.03 - Dhruv - How? (3:02)
1.04 - Dhruv - Tragedy (3:49)
1.05 - Dhruv - Grieving (4:19)
1.06 - Dhruv - Lonely City Waltz (2:27)
1.07 - Dhruv - Speed of Light (3:27)
1.08 - Dhruv - Any Day (3:11)
1.09 - Dhruv - Daggers (5:56)
1.10 - Dhruv - The Morning (3:44)
1.11 - Dhruv - Illusions (4:21)
1.12 - Dhruv - One and Only (3:55)