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Eschewing the dilated forms and performative lyrics of their debut album Menneskekollektivet, on their follow-up Selvutsletter the Norwegian duo of Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden dive headlong into the shared memories and distilled experiences of their youth, mining the nineties for shreds of old band practices and the digitised squibs and pixelated bits which made up the formative years...

From the first Ayleresque thrum and steeped ritual of 'Miserere' to the wailing blues, doleful horns and overlayed piano on 'Wonderful Words Of Life' whose wispy middle section soon scrambles to a rapt climax, and from the percussive roils which shake up 'Inhaling and Exhaling' to accompany a reading from a book called Solo Gig by the avant-garde guitarist...