Listening to the Montreal trio is like standing between a Richard Serra installation: massive and imposing, but curved to let the light shine on the edges.
"Cloud Riders," the first single from Native Invader, paints troubled love as a tempestuous and erratic storm. Part swagger, part reflection, it both smolders and shimmers with Beatle-y guitars.
Surrounded by the Norns, the three fate goddesses of Norse mythology, Myrkur's Amalie Bruun offers a prescription: Go into the wild, take an evil sound, bend it to a positive end.