Daniel Avery - Song For Alpha
Daniel Avery has released his highly anticipated second album "Song For Alpha" via Phantasy.
April 07, 2018
"I'd return to this idea of light emerging from dark, hope emerging from fear; music has always been that" - Daniel Avery
Five years after his critically acclaimed debut Drone Logic, London-based producer Daniel Avery has announced the release of his highly anticipated second album Song For Alpha, released today, via Phantasy.
In the years since his debut, Avery has helmed a DJ-Kicks mix CD, resided over a monthly radio show for NTS Live, curated an extensive remix compilation and collaborated on a series of side-projects including a recent release with Nine Inch Nails synth specialist Alessandro Cortini; he has toured relentlessly, cementing a reputation as one of the defining techno DJs of the decade. He has also worked studiously on what he wanted to say next as a producer.
Song For Alpha is Avery's exploration of the space in which home listening and club music intersect, in no small part inspired by his transient life spent between nightclubs, flights, the passenger seats of cars and hotel rooms. He confirms, "Drone Logic's spiritual home was the dancefloor. This record's is definitely the road. Those late nights and hazy mornings, finding inspiration beyond the fog."
"I've become increasingly interested in those moments in a club when the outside world becomes little more than an inconsequential thought at the back of your head. Eyes closed as opposed to hands in the air. A light emerging from the darkness - this is the idea I repeatedly returned to in the studio. The more time you spend with it the deeper you fall. Close your eyes, press repeat."
"It was already clear from his near-decade of huge DJ sets around the world, but this album cements Daniel Avery as one of the best ".
DIY
"Majestic, cavernous techno…even when it stretches out and slows down, its structures are based on relentless repetition, not relaxed meandering, and there's a gothic grandeur to the churchy reverberations that speaks not of genial post-rave relaxation, but of being lost in cavernous Berlin dungeons. The old bodily pleasure is here, but it's approached in altogether sterner, more serious ways" The Guardian
Psychedelic" is a handy catch-all: it refers to the hypnotic techno Avery DJs with as well as its ambient opposite. The album drifts fitfully between the two, as if we're tracking the producer across a sleep-deprived multi-gig weekend.
Resident Advisor
“A mesmerising work of art”
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