New song “Speed of Light” out now!

Private Blizzard, the debut album from breakout vocalist, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Dhruv, is slated for release on August 23 via Little Worry/RCA Records.

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 understand why I felt that way,” Dhruv shares. “The songs that I started 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 create a sound incorporating classic live elements while retaining a modern feel. The result is an album that, above all else, feels true to Dhruv.

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Aside from the announcement of the upcoming album release, Dhruv has also debuted “Speed of Light,” a new song from his forthcoming album. “‘Speed of Light’ is about this ‘limbo state’ of being heartbroken over someone who had no trouble moving on from the relationship,” Dhruv shares.

“Speed of Light” follows previous album offerings “How?” and “Tragedy,” Dhruv’s first new music of 2024 which he performed on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” for his late-night T.V. debut in February. Additionally, Dhruv performed a sold-out headline show at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre last night, following a sold-out headline show in London and a performance at New York’s Head In The Clouds Festival earlier this month.
Born and raised in Singapore and of Indian descent, Dhruv’s fascination with music dates back to the age of five, when he heard 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 earnestly and began producing from his bedroom.

Dhruv burst into the spotlight after his 2019 single “double take” exploded globally, racking 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.