DJ Shadow confirms seventh album will be released in 2023

Last week DJ Shadow updated his site with a message about his forthcoming seventh album. As well as writing about the process of starting it on 1 January 2022, and how the songs came together in periods between European live dates, US shows and more, DJ Shadow wrote, "Only now, roughly a year in (prolonged work stoppages notwithstanding), do I feel confident confirming that an album will be released this year."

He wrote that the new record won't be a double album, and is due to be "relatively conventional length", and revealed there "are fewer guest vocalists than my other contemporary output." As well as describing the album as "genre ambiguous", DJ Shadow wrote that it "reflects my recent experiences and evolving thought processes, both positive and negative." He added that there's a "unifying premise, which may or may not be obvious to the listener, depending on the extent to which I choose to amplify it."

DJ Shadow continued, "My job is to attempt, through arrangements, melodies, production techniques, and a million small decisions, to eliminate fluff and amplify the emotional resonance for maximum impact on the listener. Whether or not I’m successful is up to us; that is, the opinions of you (the reader) and me. So far, I’m genuinely happy, and that’s all I can ask for. Whether the end result is superior or inferior to other works of mine is unfair for me to quantify at this stage of the process."

His latest album was 2019's Our Pathetic Age.