This album to me ears is like wallpaper, it's all very polite ambient chill out music that I can imagine hearing as a bed that some radio or tv presenter talks over, or being the soundtrack to a suburban dinner party.
It has lots of nice quiet piano bits and some very nice violin sections as it meanders along even on the tunes that have vocals they function more like another instrument and I didn't really take in anything that was actually being sung it was just more background.
The two tracks that stand out as a bit different from the rest of this sleeping pill of an album are A Short Ride In A Broken Machine that has a very floaty clarinet part which feels perfect to drift off to while sounding a bit like a set of pan pipes. The other stand out tune is The Unerring Certainty Of Mechanism where the vocals come across like a public information film with another blissed out ambient backing to it.
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The female vocals that drift in and out of the rest of the album are almost operatic and could be trying to sing some Schuman while everyone else has popped some sedatives and is slowly sinking into oblivion.
With quotes on the inner sleeve such as "Fact explains nothing, on the contrary it is fact itself that needs explanation" (by Marilynne Robinson) it's easy to feel that this band are a touch out there but musically they never really do anything that makes me think this is any more substantial than interlude or background music.
Radium 88 online
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