i_O’s label releases posthumous album ‘Warehouse Summer time’

i_O’s report label Armada has shock dropped a posthumous album, ‘Warehouse Summer time’, a collaboration with Canadian singer Lights.

The album was made shortly earlier than the DJ and producer, whose actual identify was Garrett Falls Lockhart, handed away in November 2020 on the age of 30. His dying was attributable to a “sudden and fatal arrhythmia” associated to Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, an autoimmune situation the place the immune system assaults the thyroid gland and causes it to turn into infected and underactive. He had launched a trilogy of EPs referred to as ‘444’ earlier that 12 months and had additionally beforehand labored with Grimes on her 2019 track ‘Violence’.

Lights shared an emotional assertion to Twitter on the day the album was launched (November 23) telling the story of how the album got here to be and what occurred to it after i_O’s dying.

Warehouse Summer time is a 14 track album I made with i_o in 2020.
It's one factor that may at all times stay a triumph, a bittersweet opus from that 12 months.https://t.co/k8c55GdyTd pic.twitter.com/aeTQkUwuh7

— Lights (@lights) November 23, 2022

“‘Warehouse Summer time’ is a 14-song album I made with i_o in 2020. It's one factor that may at all times stay a triumph, a bittersweet opus from that 12 months.

“Garrett and I spent late nights scrounging up objective in making this music, utilizing it to mull over each inch of life. On facetime he’d tinker with samples n sip rice wine or a random beer he discovered whereas I plucked away on ambient guitar tones mumbling lyrics.

“Every track we made flowed proper into the following, one by fourteen of them, nothing was arduous after we had been engaged on ‘Warehouse Summer time’ (the mission identify was determined just about after we wrote the primary track, Supermelt).

“The primary time I listened to this once more was 20 months after he handed, i dusted off the db hyperlink and shook the entire means by. I'm reminded that even in your darkest moments you'll be able to emerge with exceptional reminiscences. I'll at all times, at all times cherish this one.

“I gained’t communicate rather more on this trigger I don’t wish to communicate for him, however ailing say this: Garrett at all times mentioned ‘Warehouse Summer time’ felt like the sensation you get while you depart the rave at 4am and the air is sizzling and sticky and also you’re lifeless af however alive. Like ghosts driving penny boards.

“I hope you are feeling each little bit of this while you hearken to ‘Warehouse Summer time.’ It’s intense and delicate, like he was. I misplaced an expensive good friend and musical companion, I miss him very a lot. 444ever. I'd say he was so fucking inspiring however he would hate that.”

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i_O’s household additionally shared a press release of their very own.

“We’d prefer to thank all who've patiently and lovingly stood by ready for us, G’s household, to say sure to releasing these final tracks.

“Thanks to the i_o administration for bringing collectively all of the groups essential to launch these final tracks of music produced by Garrett & Lights. We're grateful to them and so many others for his or her common “check-ins” with us, permitting us time and house to overlook him and grieve his absence. We liked listening to from so many, as every of us bear in mind Garrett in numerous methods. A few of your tales made us giggle or smile, others made us cry, for it's in these tales we relived a lot of what Garrett was about as an individual and within the some ways his life impacted every of us.

“Thanks for sharing yourselves with us, it has actually helped within the therapeutic. We hope with this music launch there can be therapeutic for others as effectively. Proceed to take mild care of yourselves and one another, remembering how fragile life may be.”

‘Warehouse Summer time’ is the second full-length mission Lights has launched this 12 months, after her fifth album ‘PEP’ got here out in April.