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How Low Career Points Have Led to Chris Lake’s Shimmering Debut Album: ‘I Actually Say With Pride How Much I Felt I F–ked Up’

Chris Lake's debut album 'Chemistry' is out today on his Black Book Recordings. Here he reflects on how low career points have lead to this high one.

While it feels incorrect that the album is his first, given that the British producer’s releases go back to 2002, Chemistry is in fact his first solo long player, and it’s an excellent, often exquisite project — one that friends with the musical taste you respect most have texted about in the last few weeks, just to say how good they think it is. Gradually, however, a vision formed for the Los Angeles-based house producer, whose slinky, cool, often kind of deliciously strange productions have been a through-line of the scene since Lake came to wider prominence in the early 2010s. To wit, fellow artists like Kelly Lee Owens, Amber Mark and Nathan Nicholson came over to his house to work on music, with Lake and his guest du jour typically spending a few hours talking and drinking coffee before even attempting to make anything.

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