One of dance music's busiest producers has just added another big moment to his calendar, with John Summit today (May 29) announcing that his debut album will be released on July 12.
The work has a title Comfort in chaos and will be released through his label Darkroom and Summit's Experts Only. The album announcement follows a string of recent singles including the recently released 'Go Back', the Hayla collaboration 'Shiver' and last summer's official remix of the Kaskade and deadmau5 classic 'I Remember'. Summit's catalog has generated 152.7 million official US on-demand streams, according to Luminate.
In a statement, Summit says that “Trying to find peace in chaos is the primary theme of this album – this is a much more emotional, melodic body of work for me because it's my most introspective work to date. John Summit is the performing act, but when I write music I become more vulnerable – while I was writing this album, I had to go from John Summit's mindset to being John Schuster, my real name.”
The album cover features themes of peace, chaos, life and death and was created by Puerto Rican visual artist Marcos Alvarado, who has also done the artwork for a number of Summit's recent singles. Check out this cover image below.
Summit is one of the most in-demand dance artists of the moment, with a string of recent big stage hits (including appearing twice every Coachella weekend) leading up to a headlining show at Madison Square Garden on June 29th. Beyond that, Summit has another 26 club and festival dates on its summer and fall schedule, with more to be announced. This frenetic pace has recently led commentators to suggest that the Summit may “pop” like the late producer Avicii, a session of observation addressed to TikTok earlier this week.
“Please stop making that comparison, it's really extremely disrespectful,” he says in the clip. “Avicii was an incredible artist and an incredible inspiration to me, and if there's any way to honor his legacy, it's to not make the same mistakes. It really gets on my nerves. It's not the easiest life I live, but I really love it. And I really like to entertain people and music is my life.”
Check out the official artwork for Summit's Comfort in chaos below:
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