Disclosure is coming again in a giant means.
On Wednesday (July 12), the Lawrence brothers introduced a brand new album, Alchemy, can be out this Friday.
The 11-track LP is their first since 2020’s Power, and their first to drop because the pair left Capitol Data. Alchemy can be out by way of the brothers’ personal Apollo Recordings, in partnership with AWAL, the impartial distribution service and label acquired by Sony final 12 months.
“This report is a celebration of us feeling liberated proper now,” Man Lawrence says in a press launch. “We’re not signed to a serious report label. We’re not going to tour this report. We will do no matter we like and be tremendous artistic.”
An announcement in regards to the album additionally reveals that “Alchemy was written whereas the British duo had been at two very totally different factors of their lives. On one hand, Man was just lately married and settling into a brand new house in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. On the opposite, Howard was reeling from heartbreak and exhausted from a 150-date tour.”
“There was this mixture of deep heartbreak and disappointment, but additionally deep admiration and appreciation,” Howard Lawrence says of this era. “Let’s flip this horrible feeling into one thing lovely. The entire concept was to channel ache into magnificence—which, in hindsight, is all the time the goal.”
Alchemy is not going to incorporate any options or samples, as an alternative promising a “again to fundamentals” method and manufacturing melding jungle, breaks, “trance-like supersaw synth riffs” and membership tracks” See the album’s cowl artwork beneath.
In tandem with the LP’s launch, Disclosure will host a pair of launch events in London on Thursday and Friday.
This announcement comes on the heels of the 10-year anniversary of Disclosure’s landmark debut album, Settle, launched in June 2013 and voted the No. 1 EDM album of the last decade by Billboard. The LP was commemorated with a deluxe anniversary version due in August.
