Fine electro variations founded on the acoustic. Excellent craftsmanship. Loops and electronics without loosing the underlying samples. Very good production with much use of stereo. This was a revisit of Carl Stone for me (last heard on em:t) and shows much progress in his talent. While there is alot to listen to, Al-Noor is very repetitive, even too repetitive for me on the last track. An excellent listen deserving a good copy on good equipment.

Wow. This is one of my favourite ambient CDs ever. Luscious drifting layers of repetition. Very slow, very nice. I've found myself repeatedly coming back to give it a 5. Besides the slow drift, which some find challenging, Yer Ass and Cycles are fine sound sculptures around disturbing samples... contrasting like sand in butter. Of them all, elevatorium is my favourite, taking 8 minutes of drift to build to a soft groove. As far as ambient goes, IMO, it's hard to do much better.

I like it. Production is excellent. So are the vocalists, tho they are perhaps a bit tiring towards the end of the album. FPM is quite different, very clean and very quirky. This release is more cohesive and has some great bits, tho it doesn't quite work when listenened as a whole. Deserves a listen if only for the production and arrangement.

Excellent long awaited release. Perhaps a bit repetitive in themes, but very well developed and engineered. Her sense of humor and emotion show through well arranged beats and accompanyment. First disc is groovy and quirky... washing machines, number sequences and how to be invisible. CD2 is quite repetive, but like Ravi Shankar or The Greatful Dead, the longer developments entrance and guide the listener until an abrupt eject into silence. Definately an excellent listening album.

Beautiful album. Orchestral constructions heavy with experience, in places overlayed with poetry. Dense and varied. The electronic contrasting and harmonizing with the traditional. An excellent listen.

Excellent. Subdued, pensive, plodding, distinct. Works very well as a whole. Production is very good, with subtleties which set it apart. Best album by The Cure, and that's saying a bit.

Infrequency of highs make them sweet when they do occur. Album starts of fragmented, but really smooths out mid to late. Reminds me of some of the more advanced system 7. Perhaps a bit tough to get into but easy to stay there once you are in. Puppy is a bit more consistent, but without this there would be no Puppy.

Yeah, this is a great release. There are similarities to Mono(tm), and earlier Atom Heart releases, but it brings a new perspective, also. Like Reagenz or similar, establishing a new vector... admittedly in familliar terrain, but new non-the-less. Transhuman Melody is a beautiful fixation. Valued listen.

Some of the nicest ambient I've had the pleasure of hearing. eternal drift, angelic extended voice, melodic, soothing, repetitive with tracks long enough to get lost in. Excellent production, seemingly stereo defying at times. Very nice ambient, best on headphones.

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Brilliantly produced, flowy, progressive and orchestral, save the first track. Reminds me of Possible Gardens (Namlook & Prochir), B-Zet, Cygnus-X. Quite repetive, cyclical, beaty, which makes it stand out from some other FAX releases, but it certainly has the polish and skill typical of FAX.