Danny L Harle has dropped his debut album, Cerulean, the LP, is his first full-length for XL Recordings and Follows his 2021 Harlecore project, Harle considers Cerulean his true debut. “This is my debut album,” he says. “It really is the big one.”

Along with the albums release, Harle also released a 32 minute audiovisual film to accompany the album. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Lilian Hardouineau, the film unfolds as a live performance set inside a vast, apocalyptic maritime world. Premiering exclusively via NTS, Cerulean features every song from the album, reimagined as a continuous performance moving between moments of euphoria, melancholy, and playful surrealism. Hardouineau’s visual language draws on sci-fi and cinematic touchstones including Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker and Ridley Scott’s Alien, creating a dreamlike world that feels both monumental and haunted. Much of the film was shot on the Bull Sand Fort, an abandoned sea fort in the Humber estuary, with the location lending the film its uncanny scale and sense of isolation – a decaying structure surrounded by water, suspended between ruin and reverie.

“The tension between euphoria and melancholy really guided the project,” says Hardouineau. “We imagined the DJ set almost like the last one before the end of the world – moments of despair followed by bursts of vitality, as if Danny were fighting the apocalypse with music.”

“On the threshold between dreams and reality,” capturing what Harle describes as a pursuit of melancholic euphoria – megalophobic in scale yet deeply human at its core. Seeking “the best melodies sung by the best voices,” Harle enlisted an collaborators including Dua Lipa, Caroline Polachek, Clairo, PinkPantheress, Oklou, MNEK, Julia Michaels, and kacha, alongside contributions from his own daughters. The performances were influenced by hedonistic rave culture and the Dark Souls video game series to Philip Glass’s Einstein on the Beach and Renaissance and Elizabethan composers including Monteverdi, Thomas Tallis and William Byrd, themes.

To celebrate the album’s release, last night Harle shared “Two Hearts”, his collaboration with Dua Lipa, and follows weeks of speculation after Dua Lipa was recently revealed as the final Cerulean collaborator. It follows previous singles “Raft In The Sea (feat Julia Michaels)”, “Starlight (feat. PinkPantheress),” “Azimuth (feat. Caroline Polachek),” and “Crystallise My Tears (feat. Oklou & MNEK).”

Danny L Harle
Cerulean
XL Recordings

1. Noctilucence
2. Starlight (feat. PinkPantheress)
3. Azimuth (feat. Caroline Polachek)
4. Facing Away (feat. Clairo)
5. Raft In The Sea (feat. Julia Michaels)
6. Island (da da da)
7. Te Re Re (feat. kacha)
8. Laa
9. O Now Am I Truly Lost
10. Two Hearts
11. Crystallise My Tears (feat. Oklou and MNEK)
12. On & On (feat. Caroline Polachek)
13. Teardrop in the Ocean

DANNY L HARLE 2026 TOUR DATES

6th Feb: NITSA, Barcelona, Spain
13th Feb: HERE at Outernet, London, UK Tra
14th Feb: New Century, Manchester, UK
15th Feb: Art School, Glasgow, UK
19th Feb: La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France
20th Feb: Button Factory, Dublin, Ireland
21st Feb: Schwuz, Berlin, Germany
27th Feb: Elsewhere, New York NY, USA
5th March: El Rey, Los Angeles CA, USA

order Cerulean by Danny L Harle HERE