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Extremely Alien

Silentist, Smart and Difficult

I’M LISTENING TO SILENTIST’S last EP, House on the Hill, as it rolls through bassy, slow-building, uneasy, dark rock that feels like pure creeping doom, but never seems to get there. It hints, it flirts, and then—grrughrrgghaa!—we’re pulverized by hellish nightmare screams and keyboards that just feel wrong. A lot of this feels wrong—like something […]

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