Reticent, deeply melodious and sure in its slow step. Nice breaks with flourishes of synth that couple perfectly with the steady structure. This sounds like it could fit into my postmodern genre of 'complex minimalism' perfectly. Profound sound when the simple abound!-) Very nice first track, dropping off by losing the percussion and simply sounding its way out. Disrupted picks up a bigger beat straight away and the synths draw you into a nice, throaty melody. Then blissful for a few seconds before its back to the beat. Another break again, light and easy to swallow, to return again. So, the structure is fairly straight forward and the general feeling is quite light, sort of al dente. Strung starts nice and harsh, twisting this way and that, bass comes in, beat next. Subtle variations ebb and flo over the top of the foundation, like a Japanese skyscraper. The track develops gently, then drops back to its beginnings, to slightly alter the melody method towards the end. Nice track with a bit of a mystical ending. Hope Springs Eternal, mid-paced it builds adding layer upon layer, then the heavens open up and glorious light and sound rain down upon you. It has to be said that this is optimistic music, to start but there has to be, and I think it is skirted around the track musically, that there is a darker side to such a maxim. Sit takes you underground and is the first track to feel industrial with its' machine-like backdrop. Subtle waverings of sound build into more obvious structures mixed with unintelligible voice samples, a babbling confusion. This track tests the strength of the listeners' limits on what they can accept in terms of freehand experimentalism, especially when it's minimalist. It's almost like preparing a canvas, ready for the painting with your mind's interpretation. Or, you could just listen to it, and sit? The Nervous Twitch Remix by Gross National Produkt is good darkwave, nice amenable structures and buildups and dropdowns, easy to digest, almost formulaic but it does what it promised to do. The remix of Learning To Settle For Less by the same, again produces a simply structured reliable piece of darkwave music.
Overall, I'd drop at least four of the genres and concentrate on a few, it was almost gothic in one place! Chances are though, going by the title, this might well have been a few tracks thrown together, it leaves me feeling a bit unsure about what I've just been listening (and writing) to, and I can't quite put my finger on it. Definitely some good moments though, all I can say is try it out yourself.
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