Timmy Trumpet Goes to a Deeper Place — And It Might Be His Best Work Yet

After six months of silence and a period of real personal upheaval, one of dance music's most recognizable forces returns with something he's never quite shown before: genuine vulnerability.

There's a version of Timmy Trumpet that the world already knows intimately — the horn-wielding, festival-conquering force of nature whose records are practically engineered for the kind of moments where 80,000 people lose their minds in unison. That Timmy isn't going anywhere. But "Not A Place," his first release in over six months and arguably his most significant in years, makes the case that there's considerably more going on beneath the spectacle. The six-month pause wasn't writer's block or scheduling — it was deliberate, a conscious step back to reassess both his sound and what he actually wanted to say with it. The timing is inseparable from the context: Timmy recently confirmed his separation from a long-term partner of over a decade, a rupture that has quietly reshaped the emotional DNA of everything he's been building toward. What emerges from that period isn't a stripped-back acoustic pivot or a clean-slate rebrand — it's still unmistakably a Timmy Trumpet record, layered harmonised horns and large-scale energy intact — but this time there's a weight behind it that hits differently. Heartbreak, absence, emotional exposure: the feelings are real, and they land that way.

The choice of collaborator here is anything but incidental. Oaks is the project of Swedish singer-songwriter Winona Oak, an artist who has quietly built one of the most impressive feature résumés in electronic music — credits alongside Martin Garrix, Tiestö, Robin Schulz, The Chainsmokers, and BUNT. among them — and whose voice carries a particular kind of haunted clarity that's hard to manufacture. On "Not A Place," that vocal doesn't just sit on top of the production; it anchors the whole thing, giving the track an emotional centre of gravity that earns every sonic escalation around it. Timmy himself has been disarmingly open about what that collaboration meant in practice: "Winona was able to capture what I was going through in real life with a level of depth and sensitivity that's incredibly rare. What she's done with 'Not A Place' is pure poetry." That's not the language of a satisfied artist ticking boxes on a press release. That's someone describing a creative relationship that genuinely reached something.

What makes "Not A Place" a marker rather than just a single is the intent behind it. Timmy has been explicit that this isn't an isolated moment of emotional candour — it's a statement of direction. "This is the most vulnerable I've ever felt sharing my music with the world. Everything I release this year, every lyric, every beat, every record, is coming from a real place. It's personal, and it's probably not what people expect." In a corner of music where emotional depth is often treated as a liability — where the safest move is always the loudest move — that kind of declaration takes a certain confidence. But Timmy Trumpet has never really been short of that. The question his next chapter answers is whether the audience that came for the energy will follow him somewhere more interior. On the evidence of this record, they'd be missing something if they didn't.

Listen to "Not A Place":

Timmy Trumpet's forthcoming dates:

Apr 17 – Electric Mountain Festival – Sölden, Austria
Apr 17 – Fun Radio Ibiza Experience, Accor Arena – Paris, France
Apr 18 – Mosaic Festival – Barcelona, Spain
Apr 25 – Azteca Estudios – Mexico City, Mexico
May 01-03 – Landstreff Stavanger – Norway
May 02 – Duplex – Prague, Czech Republic
May 15 – The Salt Shed – Chicago, IL, USA
May 22 – Marquee – New York, NY, USA
May 23 – The Ritz Ybor – Tampa, FL, USA
May 29 – SILO – Dallas, TX, USA
May 30 – Marquee Dayclub – Las Vegas, NV, USA
Jun 04 – Hakkasan Nightclub – Las Vegas, NV, USA
Jun 07 – Moorea Festival – La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin, France
Jun 10 – Ushuaia – Ibiza, Spain
Jun 12 – ING Silesia Beats – Chorzów, Poland
Jun 26 – Garorock Festival – Marmande, France