Moving away from the sample-based strategies that characterised their early work, Andrews and Halstead looked increasingly to live instrumentation for their first full-length work, mounting intensive recording sessions for percussion, guitar and strings before painstakingly piecing the album together at their home studio. The gothic and industrial signifiers in their music remained, but more submerged and oblique than ever – no more pronounced as influences than jungle’s percussive dynamism and doom metal’s oppressive weight, or aspects of techno, modern composition and dub.
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