Kyrre Bjorkas, Sara Lunden, Andreas Mjos, and Ida Lunden play a seductive game, using an array of amorous stratagems while they chart a gradual engagement with song constructs, spanning a number of different genres.
In five songs that last some fifteen minutes, Dubious is a dense quilt of sounds. Tape loops are utilized to recontextualize lazy vocals and gloopy basslines that hang in the background with raga-like intensity. Melodies crystalize for fleeting moments, then dissolve into sections of spiraling abstraction that are abrasive and spirited in equal measure. In between these poles, synthesizer and drum programming emit foreboding backdrops for Bjorkas soprano surges and swells. In the end, there is enough mingling of tender chanson with barbed blues to warrant hope for further forays into such alluring artifice. |
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