Bleep

Organ and guitar collide in darkly beautiful fashion on this sprawling double LP on Blackest Ever Black. Bremen's second album, its melancholy music is matched only by its sombre titles: 'Hollow Wave', 'The Forgotten Ones', 'Walking The Skies'. The Swedish duo (Lanchy Orre and Jonas Tiljander) imbues plodding, contemplative moods with a never-ending curiosity characterised by virtuoso performance. 'Hollow Wave', for example, builds on a simple two-note anchor, with heart-rending improvisational piano and gated guitar chops adding flourishes of emotional succour.