Pretty Lights Announces First Album Since 2013, 45-Song ‘A Trip Thru Time Fantastic’
The first three parts of the nine-part album are out now.
DJ Pretty Lights performs onstage during the 5th Annual Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival at Exposition Park on Nov. 13, 2016 in Los Angeles.
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Pretty Lights has announced his first new album in 13 years, the 45-song A Trip Thru Time Fantastic. The project is the artist’s fifth studio album and first since 2013’s A Color Map of the Sun.
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The project’s 45 songs are divided into nine sections, called “constellations” by the producer born Derrick Vincent Smith. The first three constellations, encompassing 15 songs, are not on DSPs but are available to stream and download for free via the Pretty Lights website.
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“I said i didn’t want to focus on albums after ACMOTS over 10 years ago & shifted my energy towards living creative systems & conscious cohesion via the soundship space system and the swirlbridge,” Smith wrote on social media on July 1 when announcing the album. ” So much music was made over those years with my bestest friends, for the purpose of swirling and experimenting with journeys into expressive flow state transmissions & reaching new depths of connection with our beloved cosmic caravan, the PLF [Pretty Lights Family].
“In the last 9 years of timeline weavery,” the statement continues. “I built a home with the love of my life, found a spiritual path, reunited with my eternal soul brother Michal Menert, formed an AV ensemble to power a traveling laboratory, and been blessed with the most beautiful experience of my life… meeting my son Ayahn. The time has come to release our musical swirl fodder in the form of the next PL album. A galaxy of 45 songs in 9 constellations before my 45th birthday.”
The project comes in tandem with a seven city summer and fall tour that includes dates Ohio’s Secret Dreams Music Festival, Pretty Lights’ own Yahn Dawn festival, happening for the second time this September in Buena Vista, Colo. and Florida’s Hulaween in October.
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