My first piece of writing on this blog this year is ironic as i began 2011 with writing about The Minus Pilots and their bass/electronic/crackle odyssey 'Superior Proof of Cinema'. This one is a CD-only job but i will try and suspend my obsessive vinyl opinion for a while, and concentrate on the sounds that come out of the shiny little silver disc instead. In today's World of individual tracks being given far more importance than complete albums, it is heart-warming to hear a multi (13) track album that works perfectly as a complete experience rather than being reduced to bite-size morsels of sonic frustration - to say that I hardly noticed where one track finished and the next began is certainly not doing it a disservice, as the overall feeling it conveyed was far more powerful for this fact.
And this album is all about feeling the music rather than hearing it. The quiet textures of the tracks ebb and flow between your ears creating a sense of serenity and each ear will also occasionally catch a sound peculiar to its own channel like the music is wrestling with itself to gain your attention.
It is a real struggle to describe this music as it is so rooted in it's own Universe - there really is nothing like it, no easy reference point to align it to, which makes it something rare and special indeed.
