Current Ninety Three* - Hypnagogue

It took me a long, long time to listen to this album. Every time I was in the mood for some good old fashioned Coptic-apocalyptic psychedelic experimental neofolk, I got some sparse piano and David reading nearly stream of consciousness prose-poetry. Kind of wasn't what I expected but when I finally sat down late one night to immerse myself in it, I was captivated. Lyrically, this is some of the most powerful, image-rich work David has yet done and the piano work complements it well, at times reflecting the surreal mood in the words. My only complaint is that so many of the tracks start right in with David babbling away when I think the pieces would have been infinitely more digestible had they started with at least some sort of piano introduction. Still, this is easily forgivable given the content.