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Lorenzo Senni is back, lining up his first album in six years, All Ages, for longtime label Warp. The puckish Italian producer adopted a spirit of “internal revolt” for the Scacco Matto follow-up, out November 20. Listen to a single, “Art Life & Skateboarding,” below.
The new song represents opposing poles of bacchanalia through the medium of two featured artists: Chad Muska, a skateboarder who loves to party, and Jamie Thomas, a skateboarder who is straight-edge. “They have opposite characteristics within something I love, skateboarding,” Senni says in a press release. “It makes for a beautiful encounter.” Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart features on a song called “La Persuasione e la Rettorica.” The guest vocals on the LP are the first in Senni’s discography.
Senni goes on to explain how his love of hardcore informed the new LP. “In electronic music, there is a lot of modulation in between parts, like a teasing, but in hardcore, it’s three drumstick strikes on a snare, or a strum of a bassline, and then you’re straight into it, you know? The lights in the room are on. Everything is visible and everyone commits to the action quickly.”
Senni is also preparing for a string of festival dates in the coming weeks, including slots at C2C in Turin and Unsound’s flagship Poland festival as well as its London edition in November.
All Ages:
01 Art Life & Skateboarding [ft. Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas]
02 Smile Through Tears
03 Jealous of Michelangelo
04 Your Favourite DJ
05 La Persuasione e la Rettorica [ft. Jamie Stewart]
06 Orpheus in the Underground (Who Are the Brutes!?)
07 Self-Examined Endurance
08 Purely Coincidental
09 Spoken Into the Void
10 XGood Clean FunX
11 Kill Lies All
