Evian Christ
Revanchist
Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
Black vinyl in printed inner sleeve with fold out poster and download code packed in printed transparent outer bag.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
Special edition CD in custom screen printed slimline jewelcase with translucent printed PVC inlay and sticker.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Evian Christ tweaks tear ducts and pill bellies with the monstrous/lush trance come-ups and EDM chicanery of his debut album, half a decade in the works and worth the wait for Trance Party disciples.
‘Revanchist’ is an 8-track album said to “explore the latent potential in Trance to evoke, beyond Euphoria, the fullest feeling of the Sublime.” Wethinks there’s a tongue-in-cheek in that mission statement’s evocation of religiosity, but also they’re deadly fucking serious.
Josh Leary aka Evian Christ is of an age equidistant to trance’s original object - his dad was a trance DJ in the ‘90s - and the subjective simulacra of clubs in 2023 filled with kids who were barely born during its peak years. As such, he represents a shamanic bridge between those eras amid a field of Euro modernists turning trance classics to shite lullabies or ramping its fundamentals to seething velocity. His music prizes a sense of nuance and scale that’s far closer to the wide-eyed effect of the original phenomenon, while renewing its purpose and meaning for the 2020s. We’ve keenly observed his work’s evolution since the start, and can confirm that ‘Revanchist’ is a lump-in-throat manifestation of his vision and prowess.
Song to song Evian Christ takes the long maligned, recently rehabilitated, trance genre as prism for flights of precision-engineered fantasy. ‘On Embers’ augments the top-lip sniff with the type of bone-shaking EDM distortion that would have made original Crasher Kids pack their pampers, while the epic thrust of ‘Yxguden’ even makes Bladee sound acceptable. The beat-less soar of ‘The Beach’ is one of a number to feature as yet uncredited vocals in classic style, and the perfectly puckered kick drums of ‘Nobody Else’ strikes a lush chord with muscle memories, next to the classic déjà entendu of ‘Silence’.
Perhaps our favourite is ‘Xkyrgios’, where IMAXed computer game tension paves the way for a gnashing breakbeat trance mutation of the ilk heard at his legendary Trance Parties, and he keeps it dead strong to the finish with Merely’s Celtic-tinged trance goddess vox setting up a sexier slow trance pound on ‘With Me’, and the ideal finale of Michael Mann-panoramic pads and strings in ‘Run Boys Run’ evokes Tangerine Dream, tango-skinned Cream dancers in ecstasy, and restless monochrome dreams of chase sequences.
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