Evian Christ announces debut album Revanchist
Revanchist is the long-awaited debut album by Evian Christ, scheduled for release by Warp on 20th October 2023. The eight-track record explores the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.
On Embers, Revanchist’s opening track and lead single, encapsulates Christ’s inclination towards the total annihilation of Trance’s default affects; soaring, rapturous supersaws meet a tempest of indecipherable noise, mangled 808s and broken shards of Defected gospel house acapellas.
Revanchist follows 2020’s Ultra, a landmark label-debut that demonstrated Christ’s emerging command of an abstractly destructive musical vocabulary. The album draws from an unlikely and diverse pool of influences; compositing, at once, the suffocating throttle of Demiurge-era Emptyset (2011); the worldliness of Madonna and William Orbit’s Ray Of Light LP (1998); the acute uncanniness of Laibach’s Across The Universe (1988); and a highly stylized approach to mixing and sound design primarily inspired by Sasha’s seminal Xpander EP (1999).
Revanchist’s album artwork is designed by long-standing collaborator and celebrated graphic designer David Rudnick, and features works by 19th century Norwegian landscape painter Lars Hertervig and British video artist Chris Bucklow. Inspired by classic Trance singles, limited edition CD housed in a screen printed slimpack jewelcase with 5-colour printed PVC inlay and wrap around sticker; the vinyl, similarly limited to an initial pressing of 1000, is housed in a screenprinted transparent bag with a printed inner-sleeve and double-sided 36x24” fold-out poster.
Evian Christ (b. Joshua Leary) is an Ellesmere Port-based musician, producer and music programmer signed to Warp and DONDA/Sony ATV Publishing. Initially recognised for his production contributions to Billboard-topping albums by Kanye West and Travis Scott, and subsequently as the founder of the enduringly influential TranceParty clubnight, Christ’s recent years have seen him lead an idiosyncratic range of projects that enquire into the legacy of Trance in contemporary cultural life.
Evian Christ — Revanchist (WARP273)
01 — On Embers
02 — Yxguden (feat. Bladee)
03 — The Beach
04 — Nobody Else
05 — Silence
06 — Xkyrgios
07 — With Me (feat. Merely)
08 — Run Boys Run
Revanchist: Live
- Sep 08 — Tilburg, NL (Draaimolen)
- Sep 28 — Prague, CZ (Lunchmeat)
- Sep 30 — Paris, FR (Nemo Biennale)
- Oct 21 — New York, US (The Meadows)
- Oct 26 — London, UK (TranceParty Outernet)
- Oct 27 — Brussels, BE (Botanique)
- Oct 28 — Amsterdam, NL (Parallel)
- Nov 03 — Turin, IT (C2C)
- Nov 04 — Guimarães, PT (Mucho Flow)
- Nov 11 — Barcelona, ES (Mira)
- Nov 25 — Manchester, UK (New Century)
- Dec 01 — London, UK (TranceParty Corsica)
- Dec 08 — Glasgow, UK (Stereo)
- Dec 09 — Dublin, IE (The Racket Space)
