John Summit to release debut album 'Comfort In Chaos' on 7/12

Today, multi-genre artist/producer/global sensation John Summit has announced that his debut album, Comfort in Chaos, will be released on July 12th via Darkroom/Experts Only. Experts Only is a house and techno music label & events brand founded by Summit himself. Pre-order Comfort in Chaos here.

With Comfort In Chaos, Summit reveals the man behind the icon, injecting his usual body-first approach to dance music with genuine heart and emotion. Summit strived to push himself musically and emotionally – hence tapping into a part of his identity that might not be immediately apparent to a lot of fans. Fans old and new will find moments of extraordinary beauty (and hedonism) across the album, which nods to Summit’s core Chicago house roots while touching on British genres he loves like garage, liquid and dancefloor drum & bass.

On Comfort in Chaos, Summit shares, “Trying to find peace in chaos is the overarching theme of this album – this is a far more emotional, melodic body of work for me, because it’s my most introspective work to date. John Summit is the performing act, but when I write music I get more vulnerable – while writing this album, I had to go from being in the mindset of John Summit to being John Schuster, my real name.”

Summit brought in Puerto Rican visual artist Marcos Alvarado for the album’s artwork, someone he has been a fan of for years and sought out specifically to help bring his vision to life in an abstract way. Alvarado exclusively created the art for the entirety of Comfort In Chaos and its singles, eschewing pop’s traditional face-first branding in favor of an aesthetic that draws a line between Alvarado’s themes of consciousness, meditation and spirituality and Summit’s attempt to channel that in his music.

The rise of Summit in the dance music scene has been nothing short of meteoric, being the only DJ named in Forbes 30 under 30 list along with a significant callout as the next “dance music sensation” in Rolling Stone’s Future 25, selling out his first stadium headline show (22,000 tickets) at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium last December, and announcing the sell out of his June Madison Square Garden headline less than two hours after tickets went on-sale.

Tour dates:

Saturday, June 1: Columbus, OH – Breakaway Music Festival

Friday, June 7: Denver, CO – Regenerate Festival

Saturday, June 8: Las Vegas, NV – LIV Beach

Saturday, June 15 – Sunday, June 16: Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage

Thursday, June 20 – Sunday, June 23: Rothbury, MI – Electric Forest Festival

Saturday, June 29: New York, NY – Madison Square Garden

Saturday, June 29: New York, NY – Experts Only at Brooklyn Navy Yard – MSG Afterparty

Sunday, June 30: New York, NY – Dreamland Pride In Central Park

Friday, July 5 – Saturday, July 6: Surrey, Canada – FVDED In the Park

Saturday, July 6: Las Vegas, NV – LIV Beach

Tuesday, July 9: Calgary, AB – Badlands Music Festival