Anti Up have announced their debut album, What Is Life.
Tech house icons Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo will release the LP under their coveted collaborative alias via Big Beat Records in partnership with Atlantic Records on October 11, the pair announced today.
The leftfield house project has given life to raucous bassline-heavy hits such as “Chromatic” and “Something’s about to go down,” and 2018’s Hey Pablo EP, but What Is Life will mark the first time the duo has combined their production expertise on a full-length album.
“Listen, Anti Up is both of our passion projects,” the pair wrote in a joint statement posted to Instagram today. “we have had so much fun writing and creating this album, BUT we have also successfully ignored every request to finish the music on time, so here it is, years later, we f***** love it, so hope you love it too. Better late than never.”
Lake and Lorenzo are yet to share additional album details, including its tracklist. However, fans can expect What Is Life to feature previously released Anti Up tunes “The Weekend” and “Control The Media,” which marked the project’s grand return in April following a two-year release hiatus, as well as fan-favorite IDs like title track “What Is Life,” “Outlaws,” “Shambles” and “Freaky Feed Me.”
Anticipation for the then-unnamed album began in January when, after Coachella revealed that Anti Up would be heading back to the desert, Lake responded to fan speculation that the pair would release their first new tunes since 2022, confirming, “Yes, album done,” on X, formerly Twitter.
Lake and Lorenzo’s Anti Up revival on the live performance front at Coachella in April saw them deliver a high-energy set packed with raw UK house cuts from the new album and custom production that turned the festival’s Mojave tent into a seedy, no-holds-barred underground rave.
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