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Review: DBL successfully fused experimental D&B, half-step and techno tropes on the "Forma/Materia" two-tracker. Here they re-establish their occasional studio partnership with a first collaborative full-length. It's a pleasingly atmospheric and imaginative affair, with the pair offering up tracks that variously mix and match elements of unearthly ambient, off-kilter drum and bass, broken techno, murky post-dubstep rhythms, experimental electronica, the metallic clonk of industrial and the hazy hypnotism of dub techno. Musically it's hard to pin down due to the wide variety of interestingly programmed rhythms, though the album's uniformly paranoid sense of impending darkness, coupled with occasional glimpses of musical positivity, ensures a coherent aural vision.