Lilly Palmer's Debut Album, 'Bigger Than Techno,' Is Here
The 16-track project, spanning techno, trance, and even some hard dance, lives up to its name.
Rachel Narozniak
Bigger Than Techno isn’t just the title of Lilly Palmer’s debut album. It’s also a description of the feeling this music gives: expansive and explosive, with a touch of invincibility that reminds you, yes, you can do anything.
While good productions bang on dance floors, great ones do that and evoke feeling. The LP is full of tracks that fall in that latter category – and across genres. Built for the late-night long haul, the project has plenty of hammering techno, along with mesmeric trance and even a sweltering, hair-raising flash of hard dance (“Hypnosis”). If it feels like all that’s missing is a strobe light or two, then that’s no coincidence.
“This album represents what I see, feel, and experience on the dance floor,” Palmer says.
But this isn’t just experience. It’s expertise. The 16-track record flaunts the same cohesiveness, vigor, and intrigue of Palmer’s sets in a format where the night feels ever young and call time never comes. Meanwhile, collaborations with Armin van Buuren, Vini Vici, Space 92, Maddix, and Danny Avila add to both the album’s appeal and its firepower. Listen below.
While she's already taken Bigger Than Techno out on the town in some ways (like her sold-out album launch party during Amsterdam Dance Event last year), Palmer's first LP will soon hit festival grounds with a fury. The German techno maven boasts a closing set at EDC Las Vegas’ 30th anniversary edition, a debut performance at the inaugural installment of EDC Thailand, and appearances at Ultra Music Festival, Airbeat One, and Nature One.
Bigger Than Techno is Lilly Palmer’s world, out now via Armada Music. Get it on Beatport.
