The veteran Chicago dance producer sets aside club conventions in favor of an ultra-smooth hybrid of house, disco, jazz, and new age. Trent's latest undertaking, WARM, has been germinating for years but came to fruition—like so many other shelved projects—during the early days of the pandemic. The resulting record appropriately evokes a tropical breeze and acts as a soothing balm for the ears. Every element of every track has been precisely measured, balanced, polished and smoothed, first mixed and engineered by Trent, then mastered by New York house don François Kevorkian.
The album, designed to be performed by a band in a live setting, shows Trent's fondness for music from the early '80s, when "people were getting used to using synthesizers, so you have this element of almost alien technology meeting organic analogue feelings," as he told RA in 2020. "When you hear sounds [from a synthesizer] being used on a human level, an organic level, an analogue level, it creates this other thing that I don't think people have been able to put their finger on exactly. It's the mixture of heaven and earth." Trent, who became proficient on guitar during lockdown, plays that instrument as well as keys, synths and percussion throughout, proving himself more than ready for the producer-to-band musician pivot.
| A1 | Cool Water |
| A2 | Cycle Of Many |
| A3 | Admira |
| A4 | Flowers |
| A5 | Melt Into You |
| B1 | Flos Potentia (Sugar, Cotton, Tabacco) |
| B2 | Sphere |
| B3 | Warm |
| B4 | On My Way Home |
| B5 | What Do The Stars Say To You |
