No Knock No Doorbell

Gavin Miller’s 20th album as worriedaboutsatan sees him swap the glacial longform ambient of past records for something tighter and more composed. The familiar ingredients are all here: dub bass, shoegaze guitar, post-rock patience, the melancholy synth washes. What’s new is the directness. Live drums and bass give some tracks a brisk, dancefloor edge the longform pieces never reached for, and ‘Icelandic Hardcore’ delivers its melancholy in sharper bursts than Miller’s usual mode. This is good work music for me, which might not read as a compliment, but is.