Review: Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard's latest album as Damien Dubrovnik is all about contrasts. On one hand there's "Interior 1, Upper Lip", where droning tones and shrill, ear-piercing screeches will test even the most patient listener. "On Its Double" is also built on intensity, with dark noise, eerie tapping in the background and the tortured wails suggesting that a banshee is at the door. By contrast, the pair are also equally comfortable making jazzy, almost whimsical tracks - "Interior 3, Matching Window Blinds & Lampshade" - and expansive, atmospheric compositions like "Fingers Into Majorelle" and the building, layered title track. However, as the tortured soul who appears at the end of that track will surely attest, a sense of dread and menace is never too far away in the strange world of Damien Dubrovnik.
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