Love Or (I Heard You Like Heartbreak) vinyl

Throughout his relatively short career to date, Melbourne music-maker Prequel (real name Jamie Lorusso-Zyskind) has delivered sumptuous, boundary-blurring singles that brilliantly blend live instrumentation with dusty samples and his own luscious, mixed-up electronic grooves. It's a sound that has always suggested to us that he'd someday deliver a brilliant debut album. Happily, we can confirm that Love Or (I Heard You Love Heartbreak) is as inspired as expected, with the Australian flitting between fully formed chunks of jazzy, soul-flecked deep house, jazz-dance, broken beat, ambient, low-slung disco-funk and hazy, blink-and-you-miss-them instrumental interludes. The plentiful highlights include peak-time disco-jazz of 'I Tried To Tell Him', jazz-house epic 'And That's The Story of Their Love', the Latin-bruk haziness of 'Love Is' and the thickset jazz-meets-dancefloor hip-hop flex of 'I'll Never Stop Loving You'.