Drei

Berlin's Oliver Doerell and Stephan Wohrmann return with their third album on City Centre Offices as Swod, following 2004's Gehen and 2007's Sekunden. It's a smart, emotionally involving sequence of melancholic, minimalist sketches, characterised by piano, quivering acoustic timbres and rich electronic ambience- it's generously melodic and sweetly textured stuff, but with an occasionally scratchy, disturbed atmosphere that reminds of us vintage Mille Plateaux or Dettinger. For fans of Tim Hecker, Porn Sword Tobacco, Max Richter, A Winged Victory For The Sullen and other moody swoonsters.