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Trevor Kampmann has had a hand in a lot of Teenbeat records over the years, as either a producer or mastering engineer. He also records on his own as the "micropop" artist hollAnd: albums of brief, nervous but affectlessly murmured songs built around digitally manipulated loops of trebly electric instruments. (The instrumental track of "Mint Missiles," for instance, is mostly just two plucked guitar snippets circling warily around each other like a Steve Reich piece.) This 2007 album's lyrics are a bit more politically pointed than usual, but its most jolting element is its negative space — the flickers of silence Kampmann leaves in songs like "Destroyer Bright" and the distinctly Unrest-ish "Anna Winter Stasi."