Name: Love
Brand: John Bence

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

THRILL532CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-13

Signed copies

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Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

0790377053227

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THRILL532LP

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0790377053210

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Artist

John Bence

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Thrill Jockey

John Bence uses music to probe the deepest recesses of the human psyche. Over a handful of releases the composer has already built up a striking body of work bound by an incredible clarity of vision. His elegiac works occupy an omnivorous sound-world, assimilating elements of British avant-garde and electronic music, classical tradition and sacred medieval song into cavernous, sepulchral compositions. Early releases for Nicholas Jaar’s Other People imprint and Yves Tumor’s label Grooming were engulfed in overwhelming emotion. Struggles with alcoholism and addiction found their outlet in brooding chamber atmospheres and caustic eruptions of choral aggression on the macabre Kill EP. Love forms the final chapter in a trio of works with Kill and Disquiet that chart Bence’s experiences with addiction and his subsequent journey to recovery. Returning to his first love, the piano, Bence explores the instrument’s deeply emotional qualities in ten movements. Love’s stark minimalism and raw production reflect the composer's personal struggles with striking honesty, searching for the deeper meaning in human suffering.

Love

Music GB