The Moth Gatherer - The Comfortable Low album review

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These Swedish purveyors of electronically ravaged, pulsating doom take their inward search to ambitiously grandstanding, melodically explosive heights on this two-track EP, aided by guest vocalist Dennis Lyxzén of Refused.

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