Rusko will freely admit that he’s created a monster. After conceding that “brostep is sort of my fault” back in February, the bass fiend hasn’t hesitated to blast (several times over) the sub-genre he helped to pioneer.

So when the UK producer announced that his next album would be “completely a reaction to the masculine, dance-floor orientated, distorted mess that is the current state of dubstep”, it certainly had us intrigued about what, then, the new album would hold.

Well, it seems we won’t have to wait long to sate our curiosity. Rusko has just announced that his second album, the descriptively titled Songs, will be released on March 26 through Diplo’s label, Mad Decent.

Rusko’s also unveiled the first single from the album, Somebody to Love – watch it below and decide for yourself whether the track lives up to its anti-brostep promises.

But perhaps the Brit has rocked the boat a bit more than he intended to with his various ballsy proclamations. “I just try to make music that is hard and has impact and sounds big, but without being aggressive,” Rusko explained in an interview with The Village Voice last year.

“I think that’s what gets so confused so much. For someone to say that for it to be big and heavy it has to sound aggressive… well, that’s just not the case. It’s not a heavy metal show.”

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