Label: ANA

生々しいコンクレート的手法、シルク刷りのジャケデザイン共に凄まじい完成度!!イギリスよりストレンジな音響、インダストリアル、ダブ作品の発信を続ける謎多きレーベルANA。2018年にカセット作品にてデビュー、その後2020年にこのレーベルよりCD作品[Precincts]を発表した、Jack & Peter Simmondsによる兄弟(?)ユニットBearerが初のフルアルバムを発表。一応ダブ的手法で音作りを行なっている様ですが、あまりにもイキすぎた構造とイメージの連続は完全にミュージックコンクレート好きを虜にする稀有な音楽。独自のシャーマニズムとも言える閉じた世界観も最高。大推薦。











2 x 12" with double-sided insert in thick plastic sleeve with screen-printed lacquer artwork. 200 copies.

Gotta praise the TENACITY of the young ANA crew, undeterred by the numerous cartons of unsold Swallow 12”s upstairs and coming out swinging with their most ambitious project to date.

Two slabs of bedsit concrète from label cohort Bearer, whose blurry dub-damaged soundscapes debuted on that Precincts CD (one of our favourites of 2020) are washed away and replaced with sprawling, intimate suite of home-cooked crud. As always with this unassuming label, they’re really onto something. Bearer’s domestic shamanism feels on par with any of the Lambkin / Lescalleet collaborations - digging in the sonic rubble and assembling the detritus into a sound picture that has its own weight of gravity. The depth of field is off, like listening to the outside world whilst stuck inside a fridge, sounds smothered and rendered vague whilst flickers of humanity rise to the surface on the lonesome guitar standout ‘Dance And Drama’, sorta recalling the moods Thomas Bush conjures at his most solitary and exposed moments. Undeniably a 2LP of this stuff demands the right time and place, but the duration and sheer scale of this statement from Bearer is the main attraction - how often can a record properly swallow you up?