Revanchist (album)

Revanchist is the debut studio album by English electronic music producer Evian Christ, released on 20 October 2023 through Warp.

Joshua Leary came to prominence as Evian Christ after he was enlisted by Kanye West to help produce "I'm in It" from his 2013 album Yeezus, which was followed by collaborations with rappers Travis Scott and Danny Brown.

He wanted to incorporate trance music into the album and his sets as he grew up listening to it and called it a "genre of music that has way more depth to it than even [he has] probably have discovered yet" and also one that "has been lambasted for so long";[2] a conceptual prelude to the album was the English graphic designer David Rudnick's 2015 speculative art installation and performance The Trance War (1998–Ongoing), which he created for the Institute of Contemporary Arts in collaboration with Leary.

[3] Joe Creely of The Skinny wrote that the album "follows [the] lead" of Evian Christ's 2020 song "Ultra" and its "blown out, cataclysmic take on the genre [...] into a world of spacious, wounded beauty, run through with pounding ferocity".

[7] Nadine Smith of Pitchfork stated that the album "proves that the genre's comeback isn't just a phase", describing it as "a ghostly love letter to the pure melodrama and overstimulating sensation of trance music".