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今回限りの入荷。素晴らしい審美眼にて興味深い音盤ばかりを揃える英ショップ/ディストリビューターLow Companyが配給を担当する極上物件！！ロンドンにて2015年頃にデビュー、エクスペリメンタルで骨太なテクノ/ニューウェーヴ作品をリリースする謎多きプロジェクトJunior Lovesの極小私家版。商品画像を見ての通りジャケットには一点一点手書きのサイン及びタイトルが記された完全セルフリリース盤であり、本作では実験的に制作されたメランコリックなアンビエントダブ・テクノを披露。装丁、内容共に完全マニア好みの一枚。

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Sinewy, hard-hitting steppers from London way. Junior Loves has a bit of form, last seen on Tabernacle in 2018, but this new, self-released, hand-scribed 10", with two tracks served up discomix style, is very much its own thing: a timeless, unpretentious cry-tuff encounter that combines deeply rooted, meticulous production with a rawness and vulnerability in a manner that is properly compelling. 'Banner' and its more stripped, spatial version set the tone - propelled by Shaka-ish 4/4 drum-murderation and bolshy, corkscrewing, blue-going-on-purple synth lines that shrink the distance between early Ruff Sqwad/Rapid instrumentals and melancholic ambient techno. The grimy forward-lean is there also in both excursions of 'The Nore', but this one drifts further into ethereal cold-space, recalling John T. Gast's druidic soundboy cuts, dizzyingly psychedelic but precise and uncluttered, mashing up brain/dance/everything with perfectly judged patterns of attack and decay. Very limited press, cut by Leon at Music House.