COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS

"Danish duo Munck & Johnson like Low,- they must do because these songs owe a lot to their tremulous cathedral of sound. They must be particularly enamoured with older material like 'Long Division' or 'The Curtain Hits the Cast' as the songs here are like a trail of stars across a darkened sky that follow their own meandering logic; they eschew beats and beatifically drift on a current of melancholy as those early Low records did. That's essentially all that happens here - guitars aren't quite strummed, bass notes provide some bottom, atmospheric keyboards swirl around Camilla Munck's angelic vocal, her words like small life rafts are buffeted on swelling waves of sadness. www.americana-uk.com