He Built a Career on Trance Without the Drop. Now Lorenzo Senni Is Putting His Own Voice on the Record.

Lorenzo Senni spent over a decade making a name for himself by refusing to give you the drop. His "pointillistic trance" took the most euphoric, most manipulative part of the genre, the build, the tension, the held breath before the beat hits, and looped it into abstract, breathless compositions that never actually release. It made him one of the most cited names in experimental electronic music, a regular on Warp Records, and a reference point for a whole generation of producers mining trance for its emotional architecture rather than its drops.

So it means something that "All Ages", his first album for Warp in six years, out November 20, 2026, is the record where he finally uses his own voice.

Why open the door to vocals now?

According to Warp Records, "All Ages" is Senni's first album to feature vocals at all, let alone his. The title nods at what he has called the open-door policy of hardcore punk shows, where anyone, any age, gets in and gets close to the stage. That ethos runs through the whole record: 11 tracks that take the hardcore punk he grew up on and run it through his electronic vocabulary, trading the genre's live urgency for something more controlled but no less confrontational.

The clearest statement of that idea is the opening track and lead single, "Art Life & Skateboarding", which pairs Senni's trance with spoken passages from two skateboarding legends: Chad Muska and Jamie Thomas.

Why pair Chad Muska with Jamie Thomas specifically?

Senni didn't pick two skaters at random. Muska built his reputation as skateboarding's party animal, flamboyant, loose, the opposite of discipline. Thomas is straightedge, a figurehead for the sober, hardline wing of the same subculture. Putting them on the same track is the whole record in miniature: two contradictory ways of living inside one culture, forced into the same four minutes.

"They have opposite characteristics within something I love, skateboarding," Senni said of the pairing. "It makes for a beautiful encounter."

"They have opposite characteristics within something I love, skateboarding. It makes for a beautiful encounter."

The album also features Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart on "La Persuasione e La Rettorica", another signal that Senni is widening his circle of collaborators rather than simply chasing a bigger pop hook. "All Ages" follows his 2020 album "Scacco Matto" and arrives as a genuine evolution for an artist who built his identity on withholding, not adding.