Nadja’s take on the intersection of drone and doom metal has always been fully realised – the duo of Leah Buckareff and Aidan Baker are laser-clear about exactly what they want to do, as much as their music is relentlessly exploratory. On Luminous Rot, there exists a loose narrative about alien intelligence, which gets lost in the textural overwhelm. The guitars here are thick yet pliable, shearing through these songs with underhand menace. The vocals feela bit hammily gothic at times but it’sa small complaint compared with the album’s intoxicating density.