i'm mostly reading the Aged brothers debut EP for 4AD as a playing field for the dynamic, theatrical R&B sounds they captured in 2011, which they subsequently elevated to upper echelons later on with their first LP a year later, and their separate collaborative efforts with Mk.gee – especially with Dijon too on his recent album. in 2011, nothing in the R&B landscape was breathing from a liminal breeze in what the Aged brothers imagined.