Al Lover

Los Angeles-based experimental producer Al Lover will release his new studio album ‘Cosmic Joke’ on May 27th via Fuzz Club Records. A staple of the global psychedelic scene, Lover has spent nearly a decade fine-tuning a broken, abstracted form of electronica that pools together a tapestry of trip-hop, synthesized krautrock, dub and dark ambient. Utilizing an arsenal of samples, drum machine, analogue synths and live instrumentation, Lover’s is a kaleidoscopic sound that’s <a href="spotify:artist:0IVcLMMbm05VIjnzPkGCyp" data-name="J Dilla">J Dilla</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5CE2IfdYZEQGIDsfiRm8SI" data-name="DJ Shadow">DJ Shadow</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:7pDkjftAxiFHomWsPNkapS" data-name="DJ Muggs">DJ Muggs</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1TsG4AumsMt1Tcq2nHpov9" data-name="Lee &#34;Scratch&#34; Perry">Lee &#34;Scratch&#34; Perry</a> by way of <a href="spotify:artist:7MSUfLeTdDEoZiJPDSBXgi" data-name="Brian Eno">Brian Eno</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0dmPX6ovclgOy8WWJaFEUU" data-name="Kraftwerk">Kraftwerk</a> <a href="spotify:artist:0tHDVpPzMs1JqKTAuGQkQR" data-name="Harmonia">Harmonia</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5mNY0NPszdalbrb4ITO3M8" data-name="Cluster">Cluster</a>.

Central to Lover’s music is a desire to explore the fringes of psychedelic music and the common threads that run through its far-reaching styles, drawing elements from the past and connecting them to the future. Through the years he has released a number of studio albums and beat-tapes, remixed the likes of Osees and Night Beats, been resident DJ for the Levitation and Desert Daze festivals and collaborated with the likes of <a href="spotify:artist:6jP9Z7o6WlbYvKUOeO5SbP" data-name="Goat">Goat</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:6FBGg3WVGPtpIbfmnkYBNS" data-name="Anton Newcombe">Anton Newcombe</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:30uiS1n3uIGXJEYFR1GVDy" data-name="The Brian Jonestown Massacre">The Brian Jonestown Massacre</a>), <a href="spotify:artist:4ekkoU6ZmScTU9kqw3C09r" data-name="Caïro Liberation Front">Caïro Liberation Front</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:5gH9MJvoI7pN9bohESzYaA" data-name="White Fence">White Fence</a>. Now, Lover returns with his upcoming studio album, ‘Cosmic Joke’ – a series of synthesized philosophical meditations on modern life, in all its tragicomic absurdity.