Deena Abdelwahed makes club anthems for an alternate timeline

An uncomfortable tension permeates nearly every moment of Deena Abdelwahed's "Ena Essbab". The track opens innocently enough, with rusted metal drums and staggered alien synths that place it neatly alongside the cutting-edge club sonics found on labels like Limninal Sounds and Halcyon Veil. Then the vocals drop. Posed against the oppressive instrumentation, a pair of human voices sing in a tone of such ominous defiance that it brings to mind the final chant of a doomed protest group, just moment