Excellently crafted ambient/vaguely droney tracks, but not so well crafted album. For an album taht isn't a single flowing composition but rather a series of somewhat disjointed tracks (several including the album conclusion ending on a fadeout), it is a bit too long. By the end of 7 I was flagging a bit, though the quality and some changes of vibe thereafter kept me going. 1-7 have a similar mysterious, introspective yet inquisitive atmosphere, but then as the album starts feeling long, 8 and some of the tracks thereafter change and add textures and sounds to craft a more hopeful perhaps atmosphere, which works well at keeping the interest going for the last third of the record. The bonus track is pretty good and continues the conclusion tracks by freezing some of the sounds and doing some fun things with it. A good record, with great ?song?writing, but that I wish were more of a flowing experience rather than a series of tracks that feel separate. 3.6
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