UK dance deconstructor and electronic auteur Leon Vynehall is releasing his new album Rare, Forever – the follow-up to his stunning debut for Ninja Tune Nothing Is Still – at the end of the month.
Rare, Forever picks up where Vynehall left off in 2018, and signals his return to the club on his own terms – creating music that’s borderless and unbound.
The album is a beautiful marriage of everything he's done so far while remaining genuinely progressive; with the end result sounding like Nothing Is Still but with the dancefloor dialled up, and the narrative toned down.
Rare, Forever will feel familiar to fans of Vynehall’s DJ-Kicks mix or his eclectic excursions on NTS while simultaneously sounding unlike anything he’s ever done before. As much as there are dancefloor memories and moments, it’s not strictly a dance record – instead, Rare, Forever is the clearest representation of the broad spectrum of music he’s made to date.
With Rare, Forever, Vynehall further demonstrates the flexibility of club music, and shows that he can rearrange it any way he likes.
Vynehall described his 2018 Resident Advisor Podcast as taking the dancefloor “left and right, up and down." On Rare, Forever, he’s taking a victory lap.