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One of the murkiest, most foreboding excursions on the label so far - Vardøgr is the debut long player from the Dublin trio Dentistry.

The word vardøgr is a Norwegian term defined as 'a premonitory sound or sight of a person before he arrives’. Like a reverse episode of déjà vu possibly, the title hints at many of the mysterious sensory anomalies that have confronted many of the great thinkers and spiritualists as they have contemplated the philosophical minefield of trying to understand human consciousness and perception. And it is this foggy terrain that gets explored over the albums five tracks.

The arc of the album is easy to interpret, but the sounds are mysterious enough to beguile. This trio has done well to exercise restraint, to suggest rather than to show. In using this technique, they imitate the best directors, who create tension without resorting to shock.

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