I randomly caught Evenings – ne Nathan Broaddus – on a night at Cameo Gallery (RIP) around 2012; I was there to see someone else, fuck knows who. This was smack in the middle of the beat scene era, so every live set was just a laptop and some sort of Akai pad controller. The unfamiliar, dreadlocked and reticent young Broaddus stepped up to his gear and promptly started tapping out these triplet kitchen sink drum sounds and fuzzy vocal stabs, a tune I would later learn was called Friend (Lover) – I was blown away. Almost a decade later I still havent quite shaken Yore, the album that followed on Friends Of Friends featuring Friend (Lover) and other standouts including Babe, digital shoegaze ballad Ager (Mind Reel) and indie campfire moonlighter Softly We Go. Yore is firmly steeped in that ubiquitous 2010s Low End Theory sound (Teebs, Shigeto et al), albeit laced with a certain east coast smartness that has allowed it to remain fresh several years on. Super limited repress of 250 copies onBroaddus own World Limited imprint; tracklist mirrors the original 2013 pressing with remixes by Shigeto and Munno, housed in full color pic sleeve. Recommended.

• black vinyl pressing
• limited edition of 250
• music label:World Limited 2020

reviewed by departmental dan 08/2020

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