"Work (work, work)" is a flat--lined study of desire & submission, sentimentality & dysphoria. The London by way of Berlin & Melbourne art-rock duo (pronounced "Hate Rock") finished the album's production while grieving the sudden loss of founding member & bassist Sean Stewart in March 2010. "Work (work, work)", written from 2006-10, is about much more than abject darkness, however. For all of the albums' more abrasive elements, its sense of bleakness & mourning, one finds a surprisingly romantic core. A sense of doomed melancholy, a heavy heart, lives below the layers of a murky & heavy space.