Haunted Dancehall

Dub pressure and slow menace shape Haunted Dancehall from the inside. 'Wilmot' is the obvious center, but the Sabres of Paradise drive the whole album through dread, echo and negative space, farther from pop than Weatherall had gone on Screamadelica. Two Lone Swordsmen and half of dark UK dance descend from this aesthetic. Even when little happens, the room feels occupied.

Andrew Weatherall's laboratory, and a deliberate concept album by club producers who had decided club production was not enough. London dub noir with a shape imposed from the first track, made by someone who had already produced Screamadelica and had nothing left to prove.