NATT

Natt EDGED CIRCLE Norwegians deliver heady avant art-rock at a snail’s pace. Bergen’s Natt are in no rush to hurry their music. Their self-titled debut’s three songs run to 45 minutes in total, their slow-burning compositions evolve to offer elements of post-rock, doom, psych and avant-garde noise melding, albeit with varying degrees of success. Multi-instrumentalists René Misje and Roy Ole Førland pepper the record’s sparse, open-ended landscapes with guitars, clavinets and weeping synthesisers. Joined in the studio by bassist Lord Bård and Enslaved drummer Iver Sandøy, the resultant music is a trifecta of beauty, agony and lethargy. Skillevei delivers an intoxicating range, continually reinventing itself before its repetitiveness becomes damaging. The dreamy Appell stacks zigzagging guitar lines atop one another as thick, memorable rhythms interweave with trippy, surreal textures. Unfortunately,…