Clarity is the debut studio album by Russian-German electronic music producer Zedd, released on 12 October 2012 by Interscope Records.

"Shave It", the album's lead single, peaked at number four on the US Hot Dance Club Songs chart.

[5] "Stay the Night" was the lead single of the deluxe edition of the album, and also charted on the Hot 100, reaching the Top 20 with a peak of number eighteen.

"Shave It" was released by Owsla as a single on 4 October 2011 and as an extended play ("The Aftershave"), including remixes by Kaskade, Tommy Trash and 501, on 8 November 2011.

[11] The EP, released on 31 July 2012, contains 7 remixes from artists such as A-Trak, Armin van Buuren, Arty, Deniz Koyu and Congorock among others, alongside an acoustic version of the track, an extended version of the track and Zedd's collaboration with Nicky Romero, "Human".

[14] The song gained publicity after being performed alongside Alvin Risk on the Late Show with David Letterman on 3 January 2013.

MTV Iggy wrote "['Stache''s] climbing synth chords matches the tension and confusion while plentiful bass packs a powerful punch.

"[19] Vocals by Lady Gaga (whom Zedd opened for during the Asian leg of her Born This Way Ball tour and produced tracks on her album Artpop) were posted by her on SoundCloud on 6 October 2012.

Jocelyn Vena of MTV said the remix was a "crunchy, at times light-hearted track, which features Gaga over the EDM star's grinding, dirty production.

Philip Sherburne of Spin rated the album a five out of ten, stating how the release contains "45 minutes of twists and turns and come-ups and codas get exhausting, and from a production perspective, there's little innovation here", which he has listen to "these sirens, whooshes, and fizzy synths a million times.

"[1] At Gigwise, Peter Kandunias rated the album four stars out of ten, saying how "all sounding incredibly similar, the songs blur into one and thus 'Clarity' really lacks any clarity whatsoever.