Daniel Avery announces new album, links with Kelly Lee Owens and HAAi on lead track "Chaos Energy"

"Chaos Energy" features vocals from HAAi and the voice of Kelly Lee Owens, and is accompanied by a visual created by Claudia Rafael using AI technology.

The new song is lifted from Avery's Ultra Truth album, which will follow last year's Together in Static and features 2020's "Lone Swordsman". Avery created the new album from his Thames side studio with help from collaborators including Ghost Culture and Manni Dee, Jonnine Standish (HTRK), A. K. Paul, Marie Davidson, Sherelle and James Massiah.

"Ultra Truth finds me in a different place to where I’ve been before," Avery explains. "My previous albums have all focused on the idea of music being an escape or a distraction from the world but that’s not the case this time. For me this album is about looking directly into the darkness, not running away from it. There’s a way through these times but it involves keeping the important people in your life close to you and navigating the noise together. This is an intentionally heavy and dense album, the hooks often hidden in dusty corners. I’m no longer dealing in a misty-eyed euphoria. Ultra Truth is a distorted fever dream of a record: riled, determined and alive."

The record is also a tribute to the late Andrew Weatherall. Avery adds, "Andrew was an enormously important figure in my life. It’s been said about him so many times, but Andrew was someone who did things entirely on his own terms, an outsider through and through. He was a punk rocker as much as he was a techno DJ. I've always held on to what he taught me which was to offer a true expression of who you are at all times. That’s the ultimate goal. If this record sounds like it comes from a more shadowy place, that’s what it is and that’s who I am."

Tracklist:

1. New Faith
2. Ultra Truth
3. Wall of Sleep
4. The Slow Bullet
5. Devotion
6. Only
7. Spider
8. Near Perfect
9. Higher
10. Ache
11. Collapsing Sky
12. Lone Swordsman
13. Overflowing With Escape
14. Chaos Energy
15. Heavy Rain