Glory Days, by Alan Johnson

Glory Days

by Alan Johnson

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Bessel Alan Johnson showing off yet more range and refining their sound in equal parts - Portal feels like a callback to The Poet at times with End of Oz taking the cake for me, shivers down my spine 😤 Favorite track: End of Oz.

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Digital release: Feb 22 2023

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1.	Many Faces of Tutu 04:55	buy track
2.	Hex23 05:28	buy track
3.	Portal 07:37	buy track
4.	Glory Days 07:13	buy track
5.	End of Oz 04:28	buy track
6.	ABAD 05:56	buy track

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"The ‘Glory Days’ EP marks a new chapter in the Alan Johnson output. Following sporadic releases throughout the last decade owing to a separation across different continents for both of us, we take a step forward from last year's Stillness EP - with an EP that constitutes our first release of entirely new music, since our first record back in 2013.

We have a propensity to work and sit on music for long periods of time which has previously produced complex and challenging outcomes but the last 2 years has seen a growth in our abilities to focus on refinement in our creation process, and an attempt to tell a story through more simplistic means.

The record was assembled with a vision and purpose over the last 18 months for the YUKU label specifically. It represents a shift in our existing sound, consistent through our past outputs which can be identified on some of the tracks across the record, and delivers us to a place which is influenced by a wider variety of experimentation, centred around more danceable outcomes and an air of glossy playfulness. The EP is split into two easily identifiable moods, representing a nod to a sometimes chaotic and pastiched past and a suggestive view of where the future may lie.

It's been an honour to work on an EP for the infinitely attentive and carefully crafted series of records curated by Jef and Ilda at YUKU, along with our friends at dsplaced who helped create the visual aspects of the release with us. This record is for everyone."
—AJ

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released February 22, 2024

Written & produced by Alan Johnson
Artwork by Liam Higgins
Mastered by Precise
Set free into the wild by YUKU

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Alan Johnson Manchester, UK

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