If 2022’s Holly EP was wispy, heavily influenced by the gauzy melancholy of its producer, Mohr’s Flenser labelmate Midwife, then her new album, Waiting Room, allows jarring dissonance to metastasize into a vivid, often graphic meditation on pain. A bone-sharp exercise in looking down the barrel, Waiting Room considers what one can do in the face of abject horror: According to Mohr, stare it down. As the album’s opening line puts it, “This comfort is bad for your health.”Written during a creative residency at an abandoned Icelandic fish factory, Waiting Room has a distinctive filmic quality. Waiting Room integrates each kind of sound into something new, merging dark and light without diluting either element. But throughout Waiting Room there’s a tension that makes the music come off fiercely aggrieved: a confrontation all the more unnerving for its quiet, ticking-time-bomb intensity.