Duke Dumont at Temple Denver

Temple Presents Duke Dumont

"I did 150 DJ shows last year. That’s 3 per week, and 110 of them were overseas,” explains Duke Dumont. “The problem is,” he laughs, “I’m not the type of person who can record music on the road.” Quite how the hell the London producer has finished this debut album, Blasé Boys Club, then, is both a total miracle and a tribute to his work ethic. “I try to push myself as hard as I can, and I hope this record represents that.”

Blasé Boys Club immediately strikes you as an entirely more musical record than expected from an artist often reductively dubbed as just a deep house producer. ‘Higher’ for instance, is a spiritual soundscape that builds seemingly into euphoric eternity, subtly reminiscent of the deeply textured electronic pop one would expect from someone like Gold Panda. That aural elevation is intensified by the candlelight vocals of James Vincent McMorrow, until eventually, in the final third, a gratifying beat pierces the atmosphere and brings with it a climactic groove. It’s a song that yearns played at 4am; a religious club experience. “I wanted to create a song that was basically just the finger snap and a repetitive vocal,”explains Dumont. “It’s almost like a gospel record, just repeating and repeating. And it’s a brave song, in a sense that it doesn’t adhere to a normal pop structure. It has the most emotion on the album compared to anything else.”

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