First comment on the Cocteau Twins! Is a comment necessary? Let me just say that the oeuvre is great, and this band interpets the enormous influence of Kate Bush and synth-pop in extraordinary and amazingly creative ways. Truly one of the greatest forces in soulful underground pop music in the past few decades and likely in the next few to come.

I normally don't listen to albums just because they get a lot of hype and comparison to bands which I like (like My Bloody Valentine), but I thought I'd give it a listen anyway. Just sounded like Pink Floyd that was purely digitized and repackaged as something new and uplifting. It kinda suits the zeitgeist quite well, and I can see why it has such an appeal to mainstream listeners, but I had to turn it off and delete it from my hard drive personally, because I couldn't stand the thought that this is the future influence of bands seminal lo-fi bands like My Bloody Valentine or Ride. A different cup of tea, but seemingly popular with a lot of acclaim. If you like the grand and epic pretensions of bands like Smashing Pumpkins then this is for you. If you prefer the quaint, dirty, and reclusive sound of My Bloody Valentine or Ride, then listen to those other bands instead.

Could this be Peter's finest solo record to date?

Like the calm that arrives in the morning after an arduous night, Peter is gentle and all-too-human in this album, musing about love, keys, confessions, and mystics. I don't think he sounded this sincere and human since the Bauhaus in his tone and inflection. Definitely signalled Peter's resurgence as a creative artist after the confusion that "Should the World Fail to Fall Apart" was. I like that other album too though, but you have to admit, it was a really confusing album! (not quite like this one)

Well, Peter is doing music influenced by traditional styles I see now-- but couldn't it be charged that he is wallowing in the territory of the sacred, instead of striking that delicate balance between the sacred and the profane, which created the mystique necessary in his earlier works such as this one? It's a question I ponder once in a while.

It would be unfair to expect from Jega the well-trodden complex stylization that characterizes many other Skam or Planet-Mu artists. Rather what we get in a release like "Card Hore" is attention to raw and pure form that is unparallelled, for example, in a song like "Star"- arguably one of the most awesome of its kind. What I especially like about Jega is his dedication to balancing the classical tenets of form, harmony, with the vanguard (and often debilitating) techniques of modern electronics that characterizes many of his contemporaries. Looking forward to hearing some new releases! It's been a while since "Geometry", hasn't it?

Personally I'd love to hear Tom re-explore some of his earlier sounds (coherent jazz, intricate, painstakingly obsessive and classic rhythmic innovations) like this album, Budakhan Mindphone, and of course Hard Normal Daddy.. Songs like "Squarepusher Theme", "Tundra", "Kodack", and so many others are (imho) the essence of what electronic music perfectionism is about... The more recent sounds he has delved into (the kind of stunts he pulls on his live shows) once had their charm but there is hardly much enduring in his late endeavours, I feel, as compared with this album, which is unmistakably one of the most precious vinyl LPs that I've ever owned. I suspect hard drugs might have something to do with it, which would be quite shameful indeed.. (of course, only if in case of a creative burn-out) This album for me is a 5/5.

How strange that there are no comments on this album.. As I recall, her first album under her own name, after Dead Can Dance disbanded, and in a few words: eclectic--ancient, tribal, renaissance, gothic, original, and inspirational. Been listening to it for almost 10 years, and it is almost still as enchanting as it were when I first heard it.

one of mr jenkinson's less sought gems.. a score, if you can find a copy. a great cover to match the masterful content. more fluid and consistent than other releases like 'music is rotted one note', or 'maximum priest' - expect a slightly less turbulent ride than his other stuff.