In the digital era, audiences are rarely generous with patience for a release after hearing a tune they like on the radio.

All too often it’s the same story. A tune gets ripped to Youtube within hours of radio play, generates a little or a lot of hype and by the time it’s finally released after pressing/artwork/mastering issues listeners are already over it. Imagine what DLVRY must have gone through when his harddrive went “sayonara” just a couple of weeks after his fiery garage tune ‘These Words’ was written and receiving interest from L2S’s Whistla, not to mention extensive radio play on online station Sub FM.

For a tune that initially turned the L2S head into a hypeman MC, it’s not lost any of its freshness over the time it’s taken to be released. That might be because it draws more from that timeless garage vibe, with only subtle dabs of ‘now’ sounds. Like all great garage tunes, the drums are clattering and crisp, the vocals are infectious and the bass is downright rude. I suppose like all great garage tunes, time was never really going to affect the listening experience at all.

Joe Moynihan