Office Listening: Gareth Emery 'Drive'

Today sees the releases of Gareth Emery's album Drive, the trance titan bringing together that features a number of high profile collaborations and work with a variety of vocalists. We've been cranking the album out in our office for a while, but you can now stream it via Spotify below.

The twelve tracker sees him teaming up with fellow trancer Ben Gold and EDM darlings Krewella, with their respective tracks 'Javelin' and 'Lights & Thunder' both two stadium sized bangers sure to soundtrack the more euphoric moments for many people this summer.

There's more melodic cuts on offer, the classic female vocal trance of 'Beautiful Rage' featuring LJ Ayrten as well as the housier and radio friendly Gavin Beach vocalled 'Eye of the storm'. Elsewhere Bo Bruce, finalist of reality TV show The Voice, and Emery's sister Roxanne contribute, as does former collaborator Christina Novelli.

Emery is taking Drive on tour, with the launch party taking place at Manchester's Albert Hall on Saturday 10th May (head here for tickets). He'll be joined by BBC Radio One's Danny Howard, Bryan Kearney and Craig Connelly, with Novelli playing a DJ set and contributing vocals to the show (as do Bo Bruce and Roxanne Emery).

He'll also be playing for Digital Society in a May Bank Holiday special on Sunday May 25th at the 02 Academy in Leeds (check our preview out here), with the Northern trance specialists allowing Emery to showcase his sound across the night.