Review: Living dance music legend BOP joins Shall Not Fade for his label debut, laying down four slick and dreamatic nu-garage numbers. Kicking things off with the unassuming, falsetto'ing opener 'SK1 4AL' with Cortese on vocals, the track is at once a tribute to what is presumably BOP's hometown, Stockport, and an intricately-layered lattice in gossamer future garage to boot; the purest element of weight in the track is its decisive Reese, which serves as a clean bass against which the superstructural tsunami of wavey tops and melodies can crash. 'Sparks' follows up, betraying an intelli-garage swing before dashing any highbrow assumptions arrived at thereupon, through a set of carnal passionate 4x4 skitters; the B-side is a relative, occult dark garage steamer, best manifesting on the femme-floaty chanteuse's 2-step, 'Deja Vu'.
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