Jacques Greene announces ‘jg,’ his first club album and first solo LP since 2019, out Oct. 16 via LuckyMe, with single ‘Presence’
Jacques Greene is done making music about the club. On his new album, he wants you inside it. On August 5, the Montreal producer announced jg, his third studio album and first solo full-length since 2019’s Dawn Chorus, arriving October 16 via LuckyMe. Alongside it he shared the kinetic lead single “Presence,” the clearest signal yet that this is a heat-seeking return to the dance floor from one of electronic music’s most influential voices of the last fifteen years.
The framing is deliberate and, for Greene, unprecedented. jg is billed as his first record made unapologetically for the dance floor, an eleven-track set that trades the soft-focus drift of recent work for tracks built to move bodies on big systems. “If my other two records were impressionist music about the club, this one feels more firmly planted inside it, colliding against bodies, taste of fog machine juice on your tongue, strobes hitting your eyelids,” Greene said. That visceral language is the whole thesis. After years of gorgeous abstraction, he has walked back onto the floor.
Stripping Away the Filters
The shift is technical as much as emotional. “After stripping away a ton of filters and reverbs, a more direct, sometimes intense, collection of work emerged,” Greene explained. “It’s me, it’s jg.” The album’s production pedigree backs up that clarity of purpose, mixed by Pearson Sound and mastered by Joker, two names that signal serious low-end and club-ready translation. Following the introspective, ambient-leaning textures of 2025’s Verses GT, his collaborative album with Nosaj Thing, jg is the sharpest and most immediate expression of his sound to date.
Crucially, the record was born from difficulty rather than confidence. Written during a period of personal upheaval in a world resurfacing from lockdown, jg found Greene returning to the people and places that gave him a sense of purpose, chasing joy, intentionality, and connection in the process. “This record moves away from concepts and follows an intuition for places where I wanted to be and where I would be wanted,” he said. The result reaches toward hopefulness instead of turning inward, a dance record that treats the floor as a site of repair.
A Circle, Not a Guest List
The collaborations reinforce that ethos. jg features an arsenal of close collaborators including DJ BORING, Ouri, Jonah Yano, umru, CFCF, SEES00000, SAM-E, crushed, and Sølv, with the tracklist running from opener “Closer” through “Presence,” “Seconds,” “Everyone,” “Time To Go,” and closers “Halation” and “Slowly.” Greene has been clear that these pairings came from friendship rather than strategy, many of them emerging from everyday conversations and shared studio sessions rather than industry matchmaking. It is a guest list that reads like a community.
That community is one Greene helped build. Since emerging from Montreal’s club scene in the early 2010s, he has spent years shaping modern electronic music, and jg lands almost fifteen years after his breakout track “Another Girl.” Beyond his own catalog, he has produced for Tinashe and Jessy Lanza, remixed Radiohead and The xx, and collaborated with Bonobo, a résumé that explains why a new solo Jacques Greene album still registers as an event. Dawn Chorus earned an 82 on Metacritic and a 7.7 from Pitchfork, setting a high bar this record seems eager to clear on its own terms.
“Presence” arrives having been preceded by “What You Say” featuring umru and “Closer” with DJ BORING, giving fans a running head start into the album’s world. Taken together, the singles promise a Jacques Greene who has rediscovered the specific magic of a dark room, a loud system, and a crowd. jg is out October 16 on LuckyMe, and on this early evidence, it is the sound of a master producer coming home.
