Latest Album GRATEFUL BASTARD from CJ Burken

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Harlem Station Recordings

Artist: CJ Burken

Album Title: Grateful Bastard

Release Date: Friday June 19th, 2026

Grateful Bastard is more than an album title: it’s a confession, a reclamation, and a celebration. This project marks a new creative era for CJ, a self-taught producer whose work has always challenged the walls around him. With this release, he steps past the walls entirely.

This album was born in the quiet places most people avoid - the rooms where we wrestle with who we’ve been, who we pretended to be, and who we finally decide to become. Every track is a testament to the complicated journey behind it: the risk, the rebellion, the tenderness, the defiance. The album’s title reflects the truth that growth rarely happens in perfect moments. Sometimes it comes from the messy chapters… the ones polite company likes to pretend don’t exist.

Grateful Bastard is CJ’s acknowledgment that those chapters mattered. That the experiences that once felt unorthodox, uncomfortable, or outright forbidden were the very ones that carved clarity, confidence, and self-possession into his skin. This album is a thank-you note to the moments that shaped him - and a refusal to apologize for how they did it.

Musically, the project draws on the full breadth of CJ’s evolution as a producer: textured electronic landscapes, emotionally charged arrangements, and a bold sense of storytelling that refuses to soften its edges. Sonically rich and unapologetically intimate, each track serves as a reflection on the touches, fears, impacts, and revelations that defined the road to self-acceptance.

In Grateful Bastard, CJ delivers a body of work that is both vulnerable and unbreakable—an album that honors the struggle without glamorizing it, and celebrates the strength without hiding the scars. It's a rare fusion of personal truth and artistic precision, crafted for listeners who know that the hardest journeys often lead to the clearest sense of self.

CJ doesn’t just present an album - he presents a reckoning, a release, and ultimately, a declaration of gratitude for everything that brought him here.

Press & Media Contact:

Harlem Station Recordings | https://harlemstationrecordings.com | info@harlemstationrecordings.com
CJ Burken | https://cjburken.com | @cjburken

CJ Burken featuring Grier : SECURITY REMIXES Vol. 1 - Out NOW!

🚨 New Release Alert — CJ Burken featuring Grier – Security Remixes Vol. 1 🚨

Yeah… apparently I make music again.

After disappearing like a firmware update nobody asked for, I’m back with a 3-track remix pack built on Grier’s ridiculously soulful vocals - think new-age Teddy P with that classic R&B backbone.

But instead of leaving the track alone like a normal, well-adjusted human, I took “Security” and twisted it into three alternate universes:

1️⃣ Burken Redux Mix — Sped up, dance-leaning, deep-house-friendly.

2️⃣ Da Dub Mix — A bouncy, dubby, housey shapeshifter.

3️⃣ Lou Peoples Mix — Minimal, haunting, borderline techno… heavenly? dark? yes.

This is me returning after 10 years, still dismantling things just to rebuild them my way.

Available Jan 16, 2026 on the following apps/websites: iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon, 7digital, Soundcloud, Pandora, Mixcloud, TikTok and Youtube Music + the usual suspects. (just search for the album title in your favorite music app...)

Volume 2 drops later this year… because apparently I’m making up for lost time.

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