New Miles J Paralysis. Boom! Brought to you via the LDN-via-Dublin label, Long Gone Are The Old Traditions. A like-minded spirit. Shouts to that man Daire C! Fell & Fen features six tracks of deep Paralysis sleaze spread across various tempos. Somewhere between an EP and an album? We’re being spoiled! Lovely dingy cover art for this 12” too. Miles has been on some run since debuting the J Paralysis sound in early 2025 with the TP-tipped Folktronic 12”, racking up killer drops for Mysticisms and [Emotional] Especial among others. How to sum up the Miles J Paralysis sound? Does dubby, grubby DJ tools entrenched with a bewitching and occult West Yorks vibe sound about right? Plenty of that approach here!

As the title suggests, lead cut “All Out Of Gas” is a prime slab of knackered machine funk that is a bit of a show-stealer. It also reminds you how MJP can cram his productions thick with sonic detail and unexpected minor twists that keep you guessing. Gurgling into life with little more than a stripped dub house rhythm over what sounds like a sampled succession of long, glorious belches, the track soon settles into a jerky, unsettling groove made of pitch-bent bass lines, crud-infested drums and breakbeats and degraded Tom Tom Club-style vocal loops. Whilst plenty of producers would probably go ‘job done’ at this, Miles ups the ante further by introducing this snaking, moody string sample around the 3 min mark. It lends the track this encroaching sense of darkness that will sound wicked on a good system.

“Cows Can't Hide From Rain” (side note: love this title) hits somewhere between pitched down electro and digi-dub house, with a nasty bass-line primed to interrogate the dance floor. The track really hits its peak four minutes in when Miles carves out these laser sounds from his gear as the rhythm melts away into echo-laden chaos. Dunno about you, but I would love to know where Miles sources some of his freaked out vocal samples. There are definitely some memorable ones deployed throughout this release. Be it the extended phrasing that haunts the slippery, downtrodden dub-house gem “Margaret's Summary,” the shorter vox (“Suck tea. Wanna suck tea”?) that is cut up and looped throughout the title track, or the indecipherable paranoia-stricken utterances on the far-far-too-short B-side madhouse rave gem “The Zone.”

Without sounding trite, you can imagine the dearly-missed Lord Sabre himself would have got lots of mileage out of these tracks. More please Miles!

Long Gone Are The Old Traditions will release Fell & Fen by Miles J Paralysis on September 18th. Pre-order on Bandcamp now.