DESCRIPTION “We created a holiday inside our heads.”

A Deeper Life, Chaos In The CBD’s debut album over 10 years in the making, is nostalgic for the duo’s nature-lled 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 sh…” 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 inuences – from Brazilian to R&B, ambient to Italo to deep house and downtempo pop – into a serene, cohesive whole with their signature nesse. The result is an international dance sound that feels unmistakably like Chaos and ebbs and ows from the beach party to the club to the afterhours.

On the album they’ve teamed up with a number of US legends and married their vocals with the UK underground: Josh Milan of house pioneers Blaze brings his soulful vocals to the bossa nova beats of ‘I Wanna Tell Somebody,’ a future jazzdance anthem. Unheralded Chicago house hero and Larry Heard collaborator Lee Pearson Jr. goes deep over ‘More Time’s broken beat ex. 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. CD
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
Otaki 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

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