Tracklist:

Down By the Cove

Mountain Mover feat. Alex Cosmo Blake

Maintaining My Peace feat. Novelist & Stephanie Cooke

Tears feat. Saucy Lady

Brain Gymnasium

I Wanna Tell Somebody feat. Josh Milan

Ōtaki feat. Finn Rees

Love Language feat. Nathan Haines

A Deeper Life feat. Isaac Aesili

More Time feat. Lee Pearson Jr. Collective

Tongariro Crossing feat. Nathan Haines

Barefoot On The Tarmac

Marlboro Sounds

The Eternal Checkout feat. Cenk Esen

Two Versions, 2xLP in standard sleeve and Limited 2xLP in gatefold sleeve.

“We created a holiday inside our heads.”

Chaos In The CBD’s debut album over 10 years in the making, is nostalgic for the duo’s nature-filled youth, exploring the magical coastline and lush rainforest of New Zealand. “The title refers to our childhood, which was idyllic,” says Ben. “It was just the sun, the sand, the sea, waterfalls, birds and fish…” The album’s blissful setting is also depicted on the album cover: a painting, by a childhood friend, of the beach where they grew up in Devonport.

A Deeper Life whirls that profound love of house music and wide-ranging influences – from Brazilian to R&B, ambient to Italo to deep house and downtempo pop – into a serene, cohesive whole with their signature finesse. The result is an international dance sound that feels unmistakably like Chaos and ebbs and flows from the beach party to the club to the afterhours.

They’ve teamed up with a number of US legends and married their vocals with the UK underground: Josh Milan brings his soulful vocals to the bossa nova beats of ‘I Wanna Tell Somebody,’ Chicago house hero and Larry Heard collaborator Lee Pearson Jr. goes deep over ‘More Time’s broken beat flex. And on ‘Maintaining My Peace’, the brothers have matched veteran house singer-songwriter Stephanie Cooke with UK grime MC Novelist, on a slinky LDN interpretation of LA hip-hop and g-funk.

Also featured on the album are New Zealand jazz artist Nathan Haines, frequent collaborator Isaac Asaeili and more.