We probably shouldn’t be surprised that Daniel Avery decided to release an alt-rock album in 2025. Like his late friend, collaborator and mentor, the much-missed Andrew Weatherall, the British ‘producer who DJs’ has always chafed at the boundaries between electronic and ‘real’ music. 

Still, Tremor really does sound like a rock band from the early 2000s, produced as it was by Alan Moulder, known for his work with the likes of My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, and Smashing Pumpkins. If the influence of those groups was more subconscious on Avery’s breakthrough record Drone Logic and subsequent releases, here everything’s laid bare. Featuring vocal turns from Alison Mosshart of The Kills, Walter Schreifels of Quicksand and Rival Schools, as well as yeule and yuné pinku (amongst others), it harks back to the halcyon days when acid house and shoegaze walked hand-in-hand.

Join him at Sónar 2026 for a full band live show that brings this collective effort, ‘the most inspiring’ record he’s made to date, to life.