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Westerhus’s re-markable vocals are more upfront than ever – naked, raw and achingly melodic .– while the instrumentation serves the songs rather than threatening to over-whelm them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe passion and intensity remains though. Redundance confronts psycholog-ical trauma head on, Westerhus addressing an intolerable situation, cutting away at his personal history in order to forge a new way forward. There’s anger and sadness in here, but also a righteous desire to rede?ne the turbulence of the past, to tell the truth and to move on. As Westerhus sings on the title track, “Swal-lowed my pride just to keep us alive, but never ever again”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRedundance faces out onto the world as well. Opening track ‘Chase The New Morning’ is a timely polemic against an oppressive Chinese regime that controls its citizens via online propaganda, a challenge to freedom that has been met with ?erce resistance in Hong Kong. It was writing about this political struggle and ?ghting for what’s rightfully yours that inspired Westerhus to re?ect on his own situation and revisit songs he’d previously “never dared to record (for being) too direct, too simple”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgainst a synthetic, often minimal, backing, the deep, resonant cadences of Westerhus’s voice represent the indomitable human spirit on Redundance. He’s vulnerable on the jagged distress call of ‘All Your Wolves’ before soaring on an ascending choral wave, while the spiky, skeletal groove of ‘Verona’ is trans?g-ured by Westerhus’s harmonic acrobatics. And even as his voice is distorted and submerged on the industrial funk of ‘There’s A Light’, he’s a man digging his way out of darkness, tunnelling through the earth to deliver another blackly ec-static chorus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWesterhus’s reputation as a questing, idiosyncratic guitarist – both in collab-oration (most recently with Ulver) and as a solo performer – is further enhanced throughout. Yet Redundance also shows a more lyrical side to his playing. Per-haps the most surprising track here is ‘Walk The Line’, a celestial acoustic ballad that edges into traditional singer-songwriter territory, before a dramatic swell of electric fretwork jolts us from our reverie. At the other end of the spectrum, ‘Hold On’ is a grimy slab of sinister, robotic garage rock, Westerhus’s guitar wailing with glee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRedundance is a mesmerising cry of de?ance, a cathartic throwing o? of des-tiny. 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