Party Favor releases sophomore album ‘RESET’ + music video for “Spirits Pt. 2” ft. Lil Gnar
Grammy-nominated artist Party Favor’s highly anticipated sophomore album ‘RESET’ is out now on Ultra Music.
The 14-track album is an amalgamation of styles, genres and sounds, a true reset on the settings Party Favor may have been boxed into before. Opening up with a literal bang, “With Regards To Your Speakers” was written with the intention of ripping off the bandaid, and setting the tone for the whole project. Second track “Hollow” with DeathbyRomy, the producer born Dylan Ragland describes as his “very own Nine Inch Nails moment” - a sonic journey through brooding, sad, euphoric and epic feels all at once. But then “Too Much” touches on some of the first OG electro records PF had ever heard, while he describes “Spirits Pt. 2” as unadulterated rage music, and a mix of the old and new Party Favor sound. The project completes with “Anxious” - which Ragland says is “a song about saying “f*ck you” to anxiety which myself and a lot of people suffer from.”
Alongside the full album, Party Favor shares the music video for “Spirits Pt. 2” featuring Lil Gnar. The video, which is directed by Glen Matheny and shot/edited by Nick Blancett, shows Party Favor and Lil Gnar pilfering cars, causing mayhem in the desert, doing donuts and messing around with flame throwers.
With a well-established history of creating chart-topping and genre-defining trap music, garnering half a billion streams across platforms over his catalog, Party Favor used the global pandemic as an opportunity to take a step back from his hectic schedule, reevaluate himself, and find the time to evolve and grow both as a person and artist that he never had before. RESET presents a distillation of this evolution and shows him striking down a whole new path, demonstrating his keen songwriting abilities, an instinctive ear for melodies, and impeccable dance floor sensibility, all melded together with his signature sounds and some nostalgic rave flair hearkening back to his earliest influences. The album truly is a mental and musical reset for Party Favor as he enters the new era of his storied career, and sees him exploring his most personal and vulnerable themes to date including anxiety, love, and loss.
RESET TRACKLIST:
- With Regards To Your Speakers
- Here Now (with Love, Alexa)
- Hollow (with DeathbyRomy)
- Save Me
- Too Much
- Spirits Pt. 1
- Spirits Pt. 2 (with Lil Gnar)
- Superhuman (with K.Flay)
- Whenever You're Around
- Signs
- I See You (with Marc E. Bassy)
- FEELSx1000
- Losing My Mind (with Elohim)
- Anxious (with MASN)
Party Favor Tour Dates PF = Party Favor SP = Sidepiece
- 06/17: Tao Beach Club (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 06/19: Beyond Wonderland: The Gorge (George, WA) / SP
- 06/21: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 06/25: Electric Forest (Rothbury, MI) / SP
- 06/30: Hakkasan (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 07/01: TIME Nightclub (Costa Mesa, CA) / PF
- 07/05: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 07/08: FVDED In The Park (Vancouver, BC) / SP
- 07/09: Audiotistic Bay Area (Mountain View, CA) / SP
- 07/10: Maya Day & Nightclub (Scottsdale, AZ) / PF
- 07/15: Tomorrowland (Boom, Belgium) / SP
- 07/23: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 07/29: Temple (Denver, CO) / PF
- 07/30: Lollapalooza (Chicago, IL) / SP
- 07/30: Concord Music Hall (Chicago, IL) / SP
- 07/31: HARD Summer (San Bernardino, CA) / SP
- 08/02: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 08/05: Breakaway (Kansas City, MI) / SP
- 08/06: ileSoniq (Montreal, QC) / SP
- 08/12: FWD Day Nightclub (Cleveland, OH) / SP
- 08/13: Ever After Music Festival (Oro Station, ON) / SP
- 08/19: Breakaway (Grand Rapids, MI) / SP
- 08/20: WTR Pool (Tampa, FL) / PF
- 08/21: Marquee Dayclub (Las Vegas, NV) / SP
- 08/23: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 09/02: The Grand (Boston, MA) / PF
- 09/03: Trio (Charleston, SC) / PF
- 09/04: Electric Zoo (New York, NY) / SP
- 09/09: Omnia (Las Vegas, NV) / PF
- 09/18: Imagine Festival (Rome, GA) / SP
- 10/13: Armory (Minneapolis, MN) / SP
About Party Favor:
As an artist who completely pushes the boundaries of what’s seemingly possible, Party Favor (Dylan Ragland) is permanently changing the artistic landscape of music today. He’s collaborated with some of the biggest names in music including AAP Ferg, Diplo, Gucci Mane, Lil Baby, Rich the Kid, and 2 Chainz, and released chart-topping music from his breakout hit “Bap U” (over 40 million streams) to his 2016 debut EP Party & Destroy, with the latter reaching #1 on US Dance Radio, #2 on iTunes Dance, and #7 on Billboard's Dance radio charts. On the live front, Party Favor has performed across the globe at major festivals including Coachella, Creamfields, Billboard’s Hot 100 Fest, EDC Las Vegas, Ultra Music Festival among many others and can be found at his long-standing residency in Las Vegas with Hakkasan Group at their clubs Hakkasan, Omnia and Wet Republic.
Party Favor has landed sync deals with globally recognized brands including Google, Coca-Cola and T-Mobile as well as prime-time television commercials and ad campaigns for Mountain Dew, Gatorade, the NFL network, and most recently the new Fast and Furious trailer during the Super Bowl. He’s scored the entire Madden 21 video game as well as contributed an original song “ACTUP” for the game soundtrack, with “Bap U” featured in Amazon Prime Video’s May 2020 content reel highlighting their top movies and tv shows on the platform. His sync deals also span across box-office films including 2017’s Baywatch which featured four tracks from Party Favor throughout the film, as well as Neighbors 2, Life of The Party, The Purge, and hit TV series including HBO’s Silicon Valley, ABC’s Superstore and CW’s The Flash. Moving into the gaming world, Party Favor’s music has been placed in games including FIFA, MADDEN, NEED 4 SPEED among many other titles.
A true creative, Party Favor uses the knowledge of his film and acting experience to develop artistic visuals around each of his projects. His hit 2019 Layers debut album (over 35 million streams) and 2020 EP FRESH LAUNDRY saw the producer share personal stories of his life through the music and designed a one-of-a-kind visual experience to supplement each body of work. For his recent series Isolation Beats, Party Favor challenged himself to produce new beats each week and paired them with unique visuals crafted by his favorite video creators, eventually accompanied by the release of his full ISOLATION ALBUM on DSPs. Well-received by audiences across the globe, both Layers and FRESH LAUNDRY are expertly crafted releases, with the latter showing his growth into new genres by collaborating with the likes of Yung Pinch, Georgia Ku, Wes Period and RUNN.
Expanding his artistic horizons, Party Favor introduced a new club-focused house music side-project in 2019 called SIDEPIECE with fellow DJ Nitti Gritti. Their breakout hit “On My Mind” with Diplo (over 200 million global streams and over 1 million global sales to date) hit #1 on the Beatport charts for 21 consecutive weeks, #1 on US Dance Radio, was named the #1 most played track of 2020 on 1001Tracklists, and ultimately scored them a GRAMMY-nomination for ‘Best Dance Record.’ The pair has notably performed at Red Rocks, EDC Las Vegas, Spring Awakening, and more, and has forthcoming appearances at Avant Gardner, the Hollywood Palladium, Bonnaroo, Hangout Festival, Electric Forest, Miami Music Week, and many more this coming year.
