Martin Garrix Set to Release ‘Debut’ Album, 13 Years in the Making — SkimNews
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- MARTY is a 14-track LP scheduled for release March 5, 2027, through Interscope Records and Garrix’s own STMPD RCRDS.
- Sentio was marketed as Garrix’s debut album in 2022, but he calls it a “club album” and positions MARTY as his first pop-dance album.
- Martin Garrix sings solo on four album tracks for the first time, with “Catharina” and “This Dream Of You” already released; “Catharina,” written about his mother, was even misread by some friends as a song about romantic love.
- MARTY was designed as an autobiographical arc from Garrix’s birth through an afterlife and rebirth, with each song representing a different chapter of his life.
- MARTY pairs Garrix with Madonna on “Bizarre,” U2 on “Fireflies,” Ed Sheeran on the decade-old “Rewind Repeat It” and AITANA on his first as-yet-untitled Spanish song.
- Bono, U2’s frontman, heard early Garrix demos, coached his vocal delivery and contributed lyrics as Garrix worked toward singing on the album.
- Martin Garrix writes his music on guitar and records vocal demos himself, countering the assumption that DJs simply arrive with finished tracks loaded onto a USB drive.
Why it matters: For Garrix, singing on four tracks and writing the material himself changes the authorship behind MARTY, not just its sound; the March 5, 2027 release also separates his pop debut from 2022’s Sentio. Bono’s coaching and collaborations with Madonna, U2, Ed Sheeran and AITANA place that self-expansion within a broader pop circle.
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