This one compared to Atomos goes back to instrumentations that are closer to the debut. The piano pieces - which, as the first track title suggests would make Claude proud - are particularly clear examples of this. 3 evokes Satie very vividly. The album is however not a redo of the s/t. It uses the same instrumentation, but it is much more subdued, subtle, discrete. It is a soft cotton ball of an album, where the first LP had perhaps more prominent, repeated melodies that stuck in the head. Here every track has superb ideas, but they are presented in background and coat the echoes, rather than take the spotlight. I don't mind it per se and in fact I really enjoyed the album. It flows incredibly well from idea to idea and this is definitely one to spin in full. When the synths come in on 1 it really makes me want synths goddammit. 1-2 do feel a bit like the debut but underbaked though. Then the combo of 3-4 is superb, before 5 taks us to darker places, then hope again. 7 gets a bit dronier, and 8 is one of those tracks that shows the quality of ideas on (subtle) display here. I'm not gonna do a full track by track because it wouldn't work for an album like this. I will say that it does feel a bit like it ends out of nowhere, which made me a bit disappointed at the end - AWFTS can't seem to get album conclusions perfectly right can they? 3.8
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