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

The album was made shortly earlier than the DJ and producer, whose actual title was Garrett Falls Lockhart, handed away in November 2020 on the age of 30. His demise 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 out to be 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 music ‘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 demise.

Warehouse Summer is a 14 music album I made with i_o in 2020.
It is 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’ is a 14-song album I made with i_o in 2020. It is 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 function 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.

“Each music we made flowed proper into the subsequent, one by means of fourteen of them, nothing was arduous once we have been engaged on ‘Warehouse Summer’ (the mission title was determined just about after we wrote the primary music, Supermelt).

“The first 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 means of. I’m reminded that even in your darkest moments you possibly can 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 need to communicate for him, however sick say this: Garrett at all times mentioned ‘Warehouse Summer’ felt like the sensation you get once you go away the rave at 4am and the air is scorching and sticky and also you’re lifeless af however alive. Like ghosts using penny boards.

“I hope you feel every bit of this when you listen to ‘Warehouse Summer.’ It’s intense and gentle, like he was. I lost a dear friend and musical partner, I miss him very much. 444ever. I would say he was so fucking inspiring but he would hate that.”

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.

“Thank you to the i_o management for bringing together all the teams necessary to release these last tracks of music produced by Garrett & Lights. We are grateful to them and so many others for their regular “check-ins” with us, permitting us time and area to overlook him and grieve his absence. We beloved listening to from so many, as every of us bear in mind Garrett in several methods. Some of your tales made us snicker 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.

“Thank you for sharing yourselves with us, it has truly helped in the healing. We hope with this music release there will be healing for others as well. Continue to take gentle care of yourselves and each other, remembering how fragile life can be.”

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