For those of you who have always found Massive Attack to be too poppy and upbeat, Kairos might be just the thing.

As with all of Caul’s work, there can be beauty, reverence, and warmth, even in the darkest and most foreboding of places and sounds.

There’s hardly a minute on the disc that isn’t awash with blackened waves of drone and drift, eerie scrapings and ringings, and whatnot.

There’s a great sense of intimacy and warmth here, which sounds odd compared with the often bleak and frightening sounds Caul uses.

Evokes scenes of long-abandoned cathedrals in the wasteland, Christian ceremonies carried out in the catacombs, black-robed monks carrying out their sacred duties.

Caul is similar in tone, but far more, dare I say, melodic and musical than anything I’ve heard by Lustmord.

Recent days have seen the release of a trio of Caul titles (one of which is a three disc collection itself), with more on the way.