Warm Up

Description

With his new album *Warm Up*, Étienne de Crécy is bold. The man who gets people dancing at night has imagined an album to listen to at home during the day: tracks that are more chill than clubbing, more organic than electronic, warmer than metallic. Has he gone mad? It's more the world that has, in the midst of Covid, a time ill-suited to making beats resonate, that led him towards an album to be experienced at home. A change of tempo. Another particularity of the opus: the featuring. He decided to invite an artist, often very far removed from his own scene, on each track, asking them to freely write a song based on the instrumental track he would entrust them with, as the sole modus operandi. He thus steps out of a certain comfort zone, that of the club and a scene that has taken him high, of a dancefloor heated to white-hot by his sets, of an album where he would be sole master on board, for a sound universe with deliberately blurrier contours – the typography of the album title attesting to this – and also crazier – the cast he brings together contains its share of unexpected personalities, with musical influences ranging from indie-pop to rap. The DJ of dizzying hours reinvents himself here as a generous, curious, and contagiously enjoyable crowd-pleaser. Featuring Damon Albarn, Alexis Taylor, Peter Von Poehl, Frank Leone, Sports, Master Peace, Olivia Merilahti, Sugar Pit, Kero Kero Bonito, and Caroline Rose.