Bitter End are back with a brand new 12. There are 2 tracks here. The first, Adjustment -> Love, comes in 3 different mixes. The A-side is more pop, a proper song, with a proper singer, that packs plenty of big room crossover punch. Bright with brass blasts and constant ripples of wah-wah-like treated rhythm guitar. Its bleeps paying homage to Jimi Hendrix and mimicking an axe shredding solo. The additional shakes, however, serve to head deeper underground. 

Maladjustment -> Love employs woofer-worrying subs and an electro-edged kick. Its keys playing a muted, sort of jazzy melody. A shot of stripped back 21st Century stuff-strutting soul, it’s incredibly classy and clearly been super cannily crafted. The proud progeny of pioneering Warp Records releases, such as The Step’s Yeah You. Parading its lineage. Definitely no DNA testing needed.

Something Going Nowhere begins all organic, with simple finger clicks, initiating a bit of Cajmere-esque jerky Chicago jack / Derrick Carter-like Detroit boompty boomp, before changing things up with a huge echo drop. Sending in scattered, shattered snares, and druggy, disorientating washes of reverb. It’s a big boss black music melting pot, where decades of experience are seemingly effortlessly distilled. Fashioned, forged, from Sheffield steel it rocks today, but I could also imagine it seriously damaging Jive Turkey’s dancefloor.

On the flip, you’ll find a very different bonus. Rivers is brave, barmy, maybe, but certainly Balearic. Its slows a famous chart-busting take on The Melodians’ righteous Rivers Of Babylon to half-speed, and drenches it in delay and monastic chant. Personally, the tune triggered conflicting flashbacks to innocent childhood `70s editions of Top Of The Pops and then Andrew Weatherall’s E-ed up early `90s DJ sets (at parties such as Gosh). Musical marmite, perhaps. It shouldn’t work but it does.

Bitter End’s Adjustment -> Love can be listened to and preordered at Juno.