Jacques Renault - Sky Islands (Blue LP) RSD2021

This is an exclusive release for Record Store Day 2021 - Drop 2.

Available in store from 08:00 Saturday 17th July (subject to change based on government COVID19 updates), with remaining stock released online at 6pm that night.

All items restricted to one copy per customer only.

Format: Blue LP
UK Quantity: 500
Global Quantity: 0

For his third full-length album, Jacques Renault explores his craft through the format of the classic late-night radio megamix. It's a tour de force that finds him blending his quick-cutting DJ sensibilities with his crate-digging, drum-chopping disco-chemist bonafides into one wham-bam party of pastiche.

This is Renault as we know him—but at hyperspeed, tearing through twenty-three tracks in under half an hour. And while it's a head rush of his trademark funky drums, sassy horns, playful synths, it's arranged as an album, with songwriting and structure at the fore.

Imagine it as a flip on the script for Renault's most loved club 12-inches of the past, which luxuriate in long-form, stretched-out grooves that burn for hours, fills that ride for days. Instead of on pulling a thread for six, seven minutes, he romps around in a bouncy ball pit, plucking out whatever captures his imagination for a moment, then diving back in to discover another buried nugget. It's Jacques Renault as we've always known him, but this time through a suite of bite-size vignettes instead of slow-burn grooves.

All details are as supplied by the label/distributor and are subject to change without notice.

Tracklist not yet released.

All details are as supplied by the label/distributor and are subject to change without notice.