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really nice composition, a sweet balance of sounds and a smooching groove.

very cool stadium-in-a-bedroom sound, it’s a rockandroll fantasy. nicely channeled experience!

hello, i chose a track at random and hey man i am digging this atmosphere a lot. i’m very drawn to moody explorations like this, and the arrangement is fresh, the piano is really good.

breezy but gritty, strange weather pattern. crop circles? very cool music!

superb. the suspension you achieve in this track is real magic. i am taken by the gathering power and also the restraint, this rides the wave all the way thru. the way the bass sits in the mix is a pure vibe, and dude the emanations extracted from the gtrs are spectral and darkangel batshit beautiful. i love how much this in the eno/laswell tradition, but also has a unique and really postpunk postmybloodyvalentine sensibility.
the percussions really stretched the envelope too. fine music, man!

man, these chords are heaven, and it really swings in its moody way, the progression thru-out is smoking. classy, yeah.

damn, now this sounds nothing like sun ra, but it brought him to mind and dude it’s cosmic, or straight from saturn let’s say. really mindblowing free-funk jam that really catches fire and then goes nova. applause, buddy!

damn. it’s great. yes, put your voice a bit more forward in the mix, but man the delivery is right on, and this sounds like a one-take, too!
now, the cake!

very cool, stark and dramatic and strangely western. sound is fabulous and the bassline is really right on. much respect, man!

damn, this is a gorgeously layered, forest-y groove. a charmed ambient glow makes this easy to listen to, but its really a rewarding close listen. more serious, solid music!

hey Michael! when this things breaks open a third of the way thru, it rides a really powerful wave right to the end! it’s an exciting and really well-made song. my fav perf from the pair of you yet!

good to hear a new track, and hits the spot. the sound is fucking
H U G E and the tune is exquisitely shaped. glorious work!

combustible sprit-music, man! you sound good playing on the dirty side, here — it’s a nice revelation to hear ‘hancock’ without the bright finish that characterizes his electronic stuff. the bruised knucks are just massive on that bass right outta the gate, and the funk flows well with the jazz. crazy good stuff!!

wow, stephen, chill but restless and full of strange portents. has a grandness with worn cuffs. an artfully contained abstract, thru a crystal ball, darkly.

Ian, dude this is the best fuckin glam i’ve heard for ages. the chill electronics and the warm electronics tweak very sweetly along with nick’s vox, it’s like bryan ferry as the terminator, hella cool. pal, i can’t tell you what yr support means so thanks for listening to my drive-by-night crap. this is a c e.

i tell you, once there bookstores made to hear this in. kilgore was here. shoot me now. musing and really quite wroth you bookworm. i’ve been looking for a decent copy of r brautigan’s trout fishing in america, highly rec’d. and now i want to get my hands on kv’s non-fiction stuff, much of that i haven’t read for some reason. this stunning subversiveness gets in my blood, brother!

this shit sounds roots to me. the sound is stellar, and mixed right like right the things pounds and throbs and snarls, fucking gnarly outro that is brilliant dude.

cool, immediate-sounding, meanly aware and telling it.
really dig the attack on this prod!

it sure has a haunting sound, devastated and disembodied. the strings were really damn splendid. much respect.

dang man you got a great range of good music in this project! respect.

never heard of the original, but now i’d like to. this is lively and strange, the guitary melodic lines are great over the beats. on first listen, i thought the mix was a bit murky, but it clicked with me the second time round.

pensive, quietly dissonant, fatalistic, then rising to rise with the risen. or is it rising against the risen? please continue!

wow, this is stirring music, a planet-sized plea for a better planet. terrific work.

mockery, but with a kinda sympathetic side, this is really cool listening. i admire the way you constructed this nice deconstruction!

i agree, the drums sound great and the dynamics between instruments echoes in a canyon of black holes. majestic music, my friend!