The husband-and-wife team of Jacob Israel and Ola Kobak (from indie outsiders Fulka) pair off for an instrumental EP that is an intriguing mix of orchestral and ambient. String instruments with their pick-ups covered in tinfoil are some of the minor interventions that skew the sounds, but it’s the deft contrasting between the rousing orchestrations and the spacious electronic work that push the six-track EP into the stratosphere. Poignant yet dislocating, populated by what sounds like clockwork forest creatures, force fields cut adrift and abandoned mansions, A Hollow in the Land melds natural human darkness and the scattered remains of a deconstructing future into a soft and glorious lullaby.
