Exorcise the Demons

Source Direct build Exorcise the Demons from shadow, silence and the feeling that something has been left just outside the frame. Melody often gives way to atmosphere, but the claustrophobia is so carefully controlled that the album feels less like a sequence of tracks than one long night with the lights off. Mood wins out over tune more than once, and it caught the duo at their peak just before the fall.

St Albans noir. Baker and Aslett built tracks out of silence and threat, and every break lands like something is about to happen in the next room. The most cinematic thing the genre produced.