The fourth full-length release of the Icelandic duo Gjöll is 'The Background Static Of Perpetual Discontent'. Both the music and the lyrics on this album reflect this topic from different points of view between anger and inner peace. This wide range of tempers and feelings are musically processed with most various styles between gloomy ambient soundscapes, rhythm based industrial and piercing power electronics whereat strumming rhythm guitar blows by Luca Brembilla on track 3 add a heavily distorted post-rock element. 2kilos &more and Black Sifichi have a guest appearance on track 4, melting their unique downbeat electronica and sinister voice with Gjöll's sound spectrum: slow, grinding beats, elaborated synth / sampling treatments and intense vocals ranging from susurration to furious screaming. This diversified range of instrumentation and sounds generates augmentative atmospheres between coldness, warmth and burning heat. Haunting, hypnotic, soothing and disquieting, 'The Background Static Of Perpetual Discontent' presents an enthralling impulse for mind and body.