Civilistjävel!

Civilistjävel! returns with a beautiful new double album of aqueous home listening skewed by faint vocal whirls and atmospheric dub vapours, featuring collaborations with Laila Sakini, Mayssa Jallad, Thommy Wahlström, ELDON, and Withdrawn.

The album holds to a reliably absorbing downbeat and moody emotional register. The spectral croon of Beirut singer Mayssa Jallad is ideally set in smoke curl synths and harmonic blushes, and Laila Sakini is neatly reserved to a hushed, hallucinatory monologue set in a widescreen illbient dub context, whilst Thommy Wahlström’s diffused coos resemble woodwind (or is it vice versa?) on an ambient acid piece comparable to Tin Man meets Paavojarju. On his ones, Civilistjävel! enchants with the puce-hued glow and keening Ø-esque dancehall pulse of the 9 minute opener, and the stately, slowed acid of ‘V’, ending with a chiaroscuro dub spectre in the final throes recalling Pressure’s Ghost Dubs.