For a moment, I thought I had been dropped into the realm of My Bloody Valentine. “Swerve” kicks off the new, untitled album from Trentemøller with the kind of buzzsaw guitar assault that will bring to mind shoegaze classics like “Only Shallow,” but the Danish musician and producer veers from there to build a collection of songs that don’t adhere to genre so much as they pull from the wider indie subculture. Throughout the album, Trentemøller brings together a roster of collaborators that includes Anika, Jonas Bjerre (Mew), Sune Rose Wagner (The Raveonettes) and more, which adds to its subtle eclecticism.
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