DJ Shadow has revealed his eighth album Action Adventure will drop on October 27th along with the nearly all-instrumental collection’s first single, “Ozone Scraper.”
The 14-track project eschews the California producer’s more recent, guest-friendly offerings in an effort to “write music that flexed different energies.” He first prefaced the creative shift in an Instagram post on August 9th, sharing, “I needed to get personal and make music for myself again. I didn’t want to compromise or write music to give someone else a runway, I wanted to force myself to permeate every available sonic space and ‘own’ the total composition.”
“This is about my relationship to music,” he added in a statement tied to the official announcement. “My life as a collector and curator. All my records and tapes, and no one else’s.”
For his first sampling from the project, DJ Shadow has shared “Ozone Scraper,” a typically punchy yet spine-tingling sprint of a single. Watch the accompanying music video, directed by Stefano Ottaviano, below.
Action Adventure follows DJ Shadow’s 2019 double album Our Pathetic Age, which now stands in stark contrast to his latest effort thanks to its stacked guest lineup that included Run the Jewels, Nas, De La Soul, Pusha T, and more. It arrives on October 27th via Mass Appeal/Liquid Amber. Pre-orders are ongoing.
Shadow also has a handful of live dates just ahead of the album’s release in October. Get tickets here.
Action Adventure Artwork:
Action Adventure Tracklist:
01. Ozone Scraper
02. All My
03. Time and Space
04. Craig, Ingels, & Wrightson
05. Witches Vs. Warlocks
06. A Narrow Escape
07. You Played Me
08. Free For All
09. The Prophecy
10. Friend Or Foe
11. Fleeting Youth (An Audible Life)
12. Reflecting Pool
13. Forever Changed
14. She’s Evolving
DJ Shadow 2023 Live Dates:
10/06 – Hammonton, NJ @ Submersion Festival
10/21 – Denver, CO @ Mission Ballroom *
10/22 – Chicago, IL @ Radius *
* = w/ Thievery Corporation
