With The Tree of The Elders, Zack Kouns, who apparently lives in the Crab Nebula, has rendered the entire of Carlos and Elkind’s soundtrack for The Shining into 70 minutes of celestial, atmospheric pop music. It is a master class in chilling, underwritten, atmospheric music; kind of like the musical equivalent of a Susan Hill novel. With soundscapes as dense and oblique as a London pea-souper, infused with an atmosphere of creeping dread, it’s a trip to say the least.

After ambient opener The Garden of Cyprus, second track Patmos introduces some breezy horns which sound like a jazz infused call to prayer, before settling down into a dazzling mish mash of unearthly voices and droning guitar, of the kind found on anti-pop depths of Blur’s 13 album.

Zack’s lyrics get a rare airing on The Bush Who Looks Like a Person – distorted, incomprehensible beat poetry, fed through God knows how many effects pedals, and set to a soundtrack of sludgy bass sounds and trippy underwater noises.

God Moving on the Face Of The Waters’ jazzy wind instruments and dissonant arrangement recalls Jonny Greenwood’s score for Bodysong – which itself was pretty much all of Radiohead’s frills and textures, without Thom Yorke’s pop sensibility to unite each disparate element, which is pretty much what this album could do with. Here is an album with no skeleton, no unifying factor.

Here Lies The Heart’s meandering organ melody, offset by Kouns’ scattered falsetto vocals is a high point of the album, as is The Measures Of Everything, with its explosive guitar drone which bursts in after five minutes of percussive noise. It wouldn’t sound out of place on one of Constellation’s releases in the early 00’s, and makes for a surprisingly affecting album closer.

It is quite impossible to take a stand for or against this music – it exists within its own little bubble, and judges itself by its own standards. It is a brilliant album in the literal sense of the word; and now, I’m going to take it into the woods and burn it, and then bury it. Then I’m going shoot the ground with a gun. And then burn the gun.