'Essential' is due to arrive on June 22 through Deewee and follow up last year's 'From Deewee', their first new studio album in over 12 years.
Explaining how the release relates to the Essential Mix they put together for Radio 1 last spring, via Clash, they said:
"When we were approached to make an Essential Mix for the BBC in May 2017, we chose to do what every sane human being would do, we decided to lock ourselves into our studio for two weeks and make an hour of new music based around the word 'Essential', instead of preparing a mix of already existing music. The product of this otherwise unwise decision is something we ended up being very proud of and is now being released on the piece of plastic you’re are currently holding in your hands."
"It felt like a challenge and something no-one had done. We loved the challenge of releasing a full record live on a radio show without people having any advance notice, and we always wanted to release it on DEEWEE after it was aired on Radio 1...”
Head below to listen to cut Essential Four.
Soulwax will play new London festival All Points East on May 26, the day which will be headlined by the XX, with Justice, Sampha, Lykke Li, and loads more set to appear.
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