It is extremely rare that a truly unique record comes along, but Kardashev’s second full-length is exactly that. Proponents of ‘deathgaze’, they mix death, black and post-metal, shoegaze and ambient into an intoxicating brew that is muscular and violent while graceful and almost painfully beautiful, reference points showing here and there but impossible to pigeonhole. The eight minutes of Silvered Shadows is everything wonderful about them encapsulated in a single piece, shot through with blastbeats, coiling riffs and endlessly layered ambience, presided over by the insanely broad vocal range of Mark Garrett. And that’s only the second song – nine more stunning tracks follow, from Apparitions In Candlelight with its aching, repeating chorus, to the poignant hulking sludge ...