Experimental collective Osmium have released a new single, titled "OSMIUM 4", taken from their upcoming eponymous album, due out June 20 via Geoff Barrow's Invada Records.

Previously debuting their material live at Unsound, the quartet is comprised of Oscar-winning (for Joker) Icelandic composer and cellist Hildur Guðnadóttir — who has performed with the likes of Pan Sonic, Throbbing Gristle and Múm, as well as performing live with Sunn O))) and Fennesz — along with Emptyset and Subtext engineer and producer James Ginzburg, Senyawa's idiosyncratic vocalist Rully Shabara, and the Grammy-winning sound designer and producer Sam Slater.

Widely known for her scores for, among others, HBO's Chernoybl miniseries and the Cate Blanchett-led psychological thriller Tár, Guðnadóttir plays a halldorophone (a unique cello-like electroacoustic instrument designed by Halldór Úlfarsson allowing its performer to harness unstable feedback loops). Slater plays a self-oscillating drum he created with KOMA Elektronik, and Ginzburg plays a device based on a monochord, an ancient single-stringed resonator.

Using their custom-made instruments, Osmium's haunting soundscapes could easily be the background music of a torture room. "Osmium 4", which is available above, drones at an unsettling pace, building tension with uncertainty and echoing Guðnadóttir's collaborations with Sun O))) and Pan Sonic.

Speaking on the single, Ginzburg says:

“This piece is an unexpectedly euphoric kraut rock inflected improvised interaction between Sam's feedback drum and Hildur's Haldorophone, while James plays percussion on the side of his Zither and Rully chants to a deity that exists only for the duration of this track. All of our instruments have minds of their own, and often it's just enough to set them in motion with the lightest touch to produce complex textures and suggestions of harmony.”

Osmium is out June 20. Pre-order here. Full tracklist:

1. Osmium 0
2. Osmium 1
3. Osmium 2
4. Osmium 3
5. Osmium 4
6. Osmium 5
7. Osmium 6
8. Osmium 7