Bo’vel’s “Check 4 U” was an underground smash in the singer’s hometown of Manchester & throughout the UK in the mid 90’s, propagated by spins from club DJ’s and a heavy pirate radio scene that played the track endlessly. Athens Of The North has taken that cut and formed it into a full album with the addition of unreleased songs that move between the sound of poppy 90’s modern soul, R&B, and dub. The closest we could get to describing this one is, what if Portishead produced a UK street soul album? And even that bizarre description doesn’t really do these songs justice.
Year: 2024 (recorded 1990's-2000's)
Label: Athens Of The North
Country: UK
Catalog #: AOTNLP 066
Record/Jacket: M (sealed)
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