Sammy Virji isn’t giving fans much warning these days. The UK garage and bassline favorite surprise-released a brand new album called Open Late, an eight-track project that landed with zero rollout and plenty of road-worn energy behind it.
The album is Virji’s first collection of original solo material since 2025’s Same Day Cleaning, and it sounds like it was made exactly where he says it was: in green rooms, hotel rooms, planes, and taxis over the past 12 months on tour. Rather than pulling back from the club environment to make a studio record, Virji built the album around the chaos and…
