Lone shares ‘Vapour Trail’ from new album ‘Levitate’

Lone has announced his new album ‘Levitate’ with a stream of the pile-driving ‘Vapour Trail’.

A world away from the slick slow-motion of previous album ‘Reality Testing’, ‘Vapour Trail’ finds Matt Cutler embracing his more hardcore influences - something that’s reflected throughout the 34-minute LP. As it turns out, it’s borne of personal experience, Cutler explaining that a feverish, bed-ridden experience in New York fed into the musical transformation.

“I’d try to go to sleep and I’d be hearing these mad rave tunes form in my head,” he says, which sounds ruddy awful to be honest. “When I recovered I was left with all these ideas for fast, feverish tunes.”

“Following that we went to LA and hung out with friends, driving round all day in the baking sun playing these jungle and hardcore edits – all the best bits from rare jungle tunes, spliced together…there was something that really seemed to fit hearing these ridiculously energetic tracks whilst speeding around LA under perfect blue skies, that was amazingly similar to the music I’d been dreaming up whilst in New York…After making a record as mellow as ‘Reality Testing’ it was important to me to not repeat myself – I wanted it to be an intense blast.”

On the evidence of ‘Vapour Trail’, mission accomplished. Stream it below - ‘Levitate’ is released via R&S Records on May 27th.