NEW RELEASES 2015 WEEK # 30 JULY 31, 2015

JULY 31, 2015 (WEEK # 30)

1.    C DUNCAN-“ARCHITECT” (7/31) 

2.    ALBERT HAMMOND, JR-“MOMENTARY MASTERS” (7/31)

3.    HAVE GUN, WILL TRAVEL-“SCIENCE FROM AN EASY CHAIR” (7/31) (Have Gun, Will Travel's 5th album is a full length concept album based entirely on British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The musical framework of the album is rife with luscious string arrangements, crooning horn sections, rich percussion and their natural instinct for combining folk, pop, rock and classic country influences.)

4.    LED ZEPPELIN-MORE REMASTERED / EXPANDED EDTIONS: “CODA”, “IN THROUGH THE OUT DOOR”, “PRESENCE” (7/31)

5.    DANIEL ROMANO-“IF I’VE ONLY ONE TIME ASKIN’” (7/31) (Not quite country, Americana, folk, singer-songwriter or pop, Daniel Romano’s exquisite and expansive new album, If I’ve Only One Time Askin’, due July 31 on New West Records, is pieces of each, but ultimately the work of a singular mind. Already hailed by Rolling Stone, the 11 new self-produced and largely self-performed songs “lead their baritone-voiced creator down a path filled with countrypolitan crooning, honky-tonk heartache and mid-century melodrama.” When no label could encapsulate his myriad creative threads and styles, Romano created his own: Mosey. In the two years since his critically acclaimed third full-length, Come Cry With Me, Romano has toured North America and Europe extensively, supporting and collaborating with a wide spectrum of artists from Old Crow Medicine Show, Wanda Jackson, Hurray For The Riff Raff, and Caitlin Rose. In 2015, Romano again hits the road, touring globally, carrying the low, lonesome sound of Mosey with him.)

6.    SEAPONY-“A VISION” (7/31)

NEW RELEASES 2015 WEEK # 29 JULY 24, 2015

JULY 24, 2015 (WEEK # 29)

1.    DUCKTAILS-“ST. CATHERINE” (7/24) (St. Catherine is the 2015 album from Ducktails, the solo project of Real Estate's Matt Mondanile. It is by far his most accomplished album to date. The album is filled with his baroque pop flourishes and layered with his soothing, but sharp vocals. Recorded in Los Angeles and Berlin and mixed by Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck, FIDLAR), St. Catherine is a complex, moody work filled with yearning and lots of the gorgeous melodic fretwork for which Mondanile has become well known for with his work in Real Estate.)

2.    EARTHLY-“DAYS” (7/24) 

3.    ELBOW-“LOST WORKER BEE” [EP] (7/24) 

4.    ELEVENTH DREAM DAY-“WORKS FOR TOMORROW” (7/24)

5.    FIELD MUSIC-“MUSIC FOR DRIFTERS” (7/24)

6.    FLYING SAUCER ATTACK-“INSTRUMENTALS 2015” (7/24) (Something thought lost forever re-enters your life. How do you respond? How do you even begin to negotiate the vortex of mixed emotions whipped up by such a reappearance? The world shifts sideways. Logic is confounded. The uncanny takes a hold. West Country feedback outfit FLYING SAUCER ATTACK are a case in point. In recent years it's become clear that the Bristol based group were prescient to a considerable degree. The amplified pastoralism of the group and its various offshoots might have seemed out of step with the times during its initial emergence at the height of Britpop, but the rural has since emerged as a rich source of inspiration for numerous artists in the fields of experimental rock and electronic music. Enter Instrumentals 2015. Comprised of 15 fresh DAVE PEARCE solo performances recorded in characteristically lo-fi manner on tape and CD-R, Instrumentals 2015 is an album that will appeal both to FSA diehards and those wholly unfamiliar with the outfit's recorded output. The 15 tracks present an impressionistic narrative which transports the listener through the excoriating dronescapes and rueful introspection of the album's early pieces to the more redemptive cadences of its closing half. Given its sense of momentum, maintained through Pearce's thoughtful sequencing, this is an album that should be experienced in its entirety, the better to appreciate its deliberate emotional arc.)

7.    NICOLAS JAAR-“NYMPHS III” [EP] (7/24) 

8.    LOOP-“ARRAY 1” [EP] (7/24) (Towards the end of 2013 saw the reformation of one of the most revered and respected late 80's UK alternative bands, Loop. The group, founded by Robert Hampson, hadn't played together since the early 90's but got together to curate a night at the legendary All Tomorrow's Parties at Camber Sands. US dates followed in 2014 and they then got back in the studio to start recording. The result is three brand new releases coming over the next year which see the band return to their hugely unique and era defining sound whilst sounding fresh and exciting. The first release is 'Array 1', four tracks of haunting, aggressive, beautiful noise. ''Precession'', ''Aphelion'', ''Coma'' and ''Radial'' are the first songs to be heard from their recording session done in Sub Station Studios in Rosyth in Scotland with the current line up of Robert Hampson (vocals/guitar), Hugo Morgan (bass), Wayne Maskell (drums) and Dan Boyd (guitar). With only an early version of ''Precession'' having had any previous outing (at a show at the Garage in London at the end of 2014), this is the very first new music from the band since their third album, 1990's lost classic ''A Gilded Eternity''.)

9.    ELENI MANDELL-“DARK LIGHTS UP” (7/24) 

10. MISS KITTIN & THE HACKER-“LOST TRACKS VOL. 1” (7/24) (VINYL ONLY?)

11. PRINCESS CENTURY-“LOSSY” [EP] (7/24) 

12. RADIOACTIVITY-“SILENT KILL” (7/24) 

13. SLEAFORD MODS-“KEY MARKETS” (7/24) 

14. TITUS ANDRONICUS-“THE MOST LAMENTABLE TRAGEDY” (7/24) (The Most Lamentable Tragedy [hereafter TMLT] is the fourth studio album by Titus Andronicus [hereafter +@] and the band’s debut for Merge Records. A rock opera in five acts, it will see release on July 31, 2015, as a double CD and triple LP. The central narrative of TMLT (“a work of fiction,” claims singer/songwriter Patrick Stickles) concerns an unnamed protagonist whom we meet in deep despair. Following an encounter with his own doppelgänger (an enigmatic stranger, identical in appearance though opposite in disposition), long held secrets are revealed, sending our protagonist on a transformative odyssey, through past lives and new loves, to the shocking revelation that the very thing that sustains him may be the thing to destroy him. TMLT was produced by frequent collaborator Kevin McMahon and +@ lead guitarist Adam Reich. The core band is rounded out by the long-standing rhythm section of Eric Harm (drums) and Julian Veronesi (bass) plus rookie guitarist Jonah Maurer. Joining in throughout are pianist Elio DeLuca and violinist Owen Pallett, beside a cast of guests representing some of New York’s most exciting bands (The So So Glos, Baked, Bad Credit No Credit, Lost Boy?, etc.). TMLT is both the crown jewel of the band’s discography and the legend that contextualizes their entire body of work. It reveals that +@ are what hardcore fans have said they are for years, and what the world must now recognize them to be: not merely the greatest rock and roll band of this era, but one of the greatest rock and roll bands of all time.

15. VINYL WILLIAMS-“INTO” (7/24) 

NEW RELEASES 2015 WEEK # 28 JULY 17, 2015

JULY 17, 2015 (WEEK # 28)

1.    ELLEN ALLIEN-“HIGH” [EP] (7/17) (Ellen Allien's first release of 2015 proves once again that love of music is still the best drug on earth. Euphoria can turn into ecstasy by sharing this love on the dancefloor, and Ellen's 11-minute trip "High" is dedicated to the dancing crowd. Subtle and hypnotic, from the pushing bass to the powerful, ascending soundscapes of the Jupiter-8 to the lead vocal line, "You make me feel so high." The B-side is also about her typical way of exchanging energy; while the 303 only tickles at first, the acid helixes soon climb into the trance sky. Listen. Feel. Space out.)

2.    THE BIRD AND THE BEE-“RECREATIONAL LOVE” (7/17) 

3.    CARLTON MELTON-“OUT TO SEA” (7/17) (The voyage is long, the voyage is joyous. Out to Sea is the most focused of all Carlton Melton's recordings to date. Leaving their geodesic dome behind, they hitched their magick karpet to San Francisco's El Studio for a fried weekend in July 2014 with The Fucking Champs / Trans Am's Phil Manley at the production helm (and occasionally contributing  to the furor--Manley plays guitar on "Similarities" and synth on "Peaking Duck").Out to Sea sees Carlton Melton expand the psychedelia and free outrock sound of their previous output to its furthest horizons. Huge rhythms, outta space riffage, sparkling synths, pastoral passages, searing shards of molten guitar, smothered ambience and gentle guitar-picking all flow together into waves of sound to lap at the shores of your senses.We're gonna need a bigger boat."Radiant" --Mojo "Intense, sweet, headnodding psych" --Uncut +  ("Out to Sea" is the most focused of all Carlton Melton’s recordings to date while successfully expanding the psychedelia and free outrock sound of their previous releases. Huge rhythms, outta space riffage, sparkling synths, pastoral passages, searing shards of molten guitar, smothered ambiance and gentle guitar-picking all flowing together into waves of sound to lap at the shores of your senses. MIDHEAVEN MAILORDER")

4.    THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS-“BORN IN THE ECHOES” [DELUXE EDITION 2-CD] (7/17) 

5.    SAMANTHA CRAIN-“UNDER BRANCH & THORN & TREE” (7/17) (Crain's songs are full of expansive melodies that veer off in unpredictable directions, with lyrics that explore conflicting emotions with uncommon insight and compassion. She has a jazz singer's phrasing, often breaking words into rhythmic fragments that land before and after the beat, stretching syllables or adding grace notes to uncover hidden nuances in her lyrics.Under Branch & Thorn & Tree was recorded at Tiny Telephone Studios in San Francisco, with John Vanderslice (The Mountain Goats, Spoon), who also helmed last year's Kid Face. We recorded straight to two-inch tape on a Studer 24-track machine and mixed down to 1/2-inch tape on an Ampex machine. The pre-amps were tube and we never used a computer. Our effects were done manually through tape looping and manipulation. Most of the arrangements happened in the moment, as we recorded. My guitar and vocals are all first or second takes. These intimate vignettes are marked by Crain's careful attention to the tiny details that often escape us, supported by the subtle musical settings she crafted with Vanderslice and the backing musicians.)

6.    DAT POLITICS-“NO VOID” (7/17)

7.    DAY WAVE-“HEADCASE” [EP] (7/17) 

8.    D.O.A.-“HARD RAIN FALLING” (7/17) (2015 release, the 16th studio album from Canada's legendary punk pioneers. DOA is back with a vengeance! It looked like Canada's legendary punk pioneers were going to hang it up, as Joe "Shithead" Keithley, the godfather of hardcore, sought political office in Canada, but that didn't happen this time. When Keithley set out to write the songs for the album, he used DOA's early efforts like Hardcore 81, Something Better Change and War on 45 as a bit of template, in the sense that the songs should be short, fast and right to the point. The end result is great, likely their best album since War on 45. Keithley's lyrics take on a wide range of modern and horrible screwups, from racism to street gangs to war to environmental degradation. With all of that in mind, Shithead and his infamous henchmen Paddy Duddy (drums) and Mike Maggot (bass) went into the studio with fire in their bellies and with the goal of making a kick-ass album. It worked-Hard Rain Falling is a great effort from one of the world's most influential and inspirational bands.)

9.    FELIX DA HOUSECAT-“NARRATIVE OF THEE BLAST ILLUSION” (7/10)

10. IRON & WINE / BEN BRIDWELL-“SING INTO MY MOUTH” [A COVERS ALBUM] (7/17) (Longtime friends Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses and Iron & Wine s Sam Beam unveil their first ever collaborative album, Sing Into My Mouth, a homage to 12 songs that have had indelible influence on both of its creators. Classics interpreted range from Talking Heads, This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody), Sades, Bulletproof Soul & El Perro del Mar, God Knows (You Gotta Give to Get) the original having recently been featured on HBO s GIRLS to deep cuts like Them Twos, Am I a Good Man?)

11. JASON ISBELL-“SOMETHING MORE THAN FREE” (7/17) 

12. JAILL-“BRAIN CREAM” (7/17) 

13. MATRIXXMAN-“HOMESICK” (7/17) (Matrixxman uses his debut album to evoke visions of future with music made both for the dance floor and the early morning zone-outs that follow. These are the real world applications of Homesick, though Duff comes to it all from an entirely different mindset. "We will have the technological capability to fully map out a human brain in its entirety within 30 years. We will be crossing a rubicon towards a new phase in human consciousness. I am one person that is prepared to take that step." Once you emerge on the other side of Homesick, it seems possible that Matrixxman already has.)

14. METRIC-“THE SHADE” [EP] (7/17)

15. TESS PARKS & ANTON NEWCOMBE-“I DECLARE NOTHING” (7/17) (Born in Berlin in early 2014 and nurtured over the following summer, I Declare Nothing is the spine-tingling collaboration between Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe (The Brian Jonestown Massacre), co-written and co-played by the duo and released to coincide with their 2015 European tour, following their Record Store Day 2015 Cocaine Cat single (AUK 118EP). A native of Toronto, Tess Parks moved to London, England, at the age of 17, where she briefly studied photography before deciding to focus on music. Parks made an impression on industry legend Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, though the timing of their meeting could hardly have been less ideal; McGee was no longer involved in music and Parks was due to move back to Toronto. After moving back to her hometown in 2012, Parks formed a band on the advice of McGee and less than a year after their meeting, he returned to music with his label 359 Music. Parks became one of his first signings and released her debut record, Blood Hot, in November 2013 to excellent reviews. One reviewer described her as "Patti Smith on Quaaludes." Others have mentioned her "gauzy psychedelic sound" and "smouldering voice." Alan McGee himself said, "She's only 24 and is already an amazing songwriter... she just doesn't quite know she is yet -- her most beautiful quality is her lack of ego. Tess is an amazing lady." Anton Newcombe is the leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, who returned in May 2014 with their 14th full-length album, Revelation (AUK 030CD/LP), to critical acclaim, and released Musique de film imaginé (AUK 032CD/LP) in 2015. The band's first album to be fully recorded and produced at Newcombe's recording studio in Berlin, it was supported by a successful European tour. Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock 'n' roll, The Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, California in 1990. Through two dozen band members and numerous "ups and downs" (some of which have been famously sensationalized in the media), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic collective is frontman Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe.)

16. POINTED STICKS-“POINTED STICKS” (7/17) (2015 release from the veteran Canadian punk band. It's a great record, and contains 10 amazing new songs by Vancouver's punk pop kings. In a parallel universe, this is what the radio might sound like. For the old, and for the young, these are songs for everyone. It's the summer of 2015, and here comes a brand new full length Pointed Sticks LP. "You're Not The One," "Lovely Bird" and "Tin Foil Hat" are all ber catchy songs in that classic Pointed Sticks style. Long live summer, long live the Pointed Sticks.)

17. RATATAT-“MAGNIFIQUE” (7/17) (Following up on the experimental sounds of LP3 and LP4, Ratatat return to their core guitar-driven sound on Magnifique. Combining the bedrock beats and primordial riffs from their first two albums with the sonic experimentation and production prowess of LP3 and LP4, Mike and Evan arrived at a new plateau with Magnifique. RATATAT recently returned to the stage for the first time in four years to complete a handful of sold-out shows in Tulsa, Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. RATATAT will also perform at Governor’s Ball, Capital Hill Block Party and HARD SUMMER music festivals this summer.)

18. SCREATURE-“FOUR COLUMNS” (7/17) (Screature's second album Four Columns opens with shimmering guitar and incantation... and then it flies. Chris Orr's atmospheric guitar is a cool companion to Liz Mahoney's haunting vocals; Sarah Scherer's keys swirl to Miranda Vera's insistent beat; it's all brought to now by Chris Woodhouse's excellent production. Call it dark psychedelia or post-punk black, Screature's Four Columns is a creeping zodiac of sound.Screature came to life in 2008, in a dark corner of Sacramento, California. They spent three years making music in secret, wintering to Rudimentary Peni and Chrome, summering to Music Machine and PiL. In 2011, they played their first show, with Death Grips. And then hit the stage with White Lung, Chain & the Gang, Wounded Lion, Milk Music, TV Ghost and others.2013 saw their debut LP flash through the sky (now back in print on S-S Records). D. Yudt called it the "feel-bad record of the year." It landed in Chelsea Wolfe's Pitchfork year-end "Best Of." As good as the self-titled Screature is, Four Columns is better. The songs "Down Boys," "Half Past Midnight," and "Lost Ones" are already live hits; on record they rule other worlds. From front to back, Four Columns intoxicates.)

19. TAME IMPALA-“CURRENTS” (7/17) 

20. THE TWILIGHT SAD + ROBERT SMITH-“IT NEVER WAS THE SAME B/W THERE’S A GIRL IN THE CORNER” [SINGLE] (7/17) 

21. UNIFORM-“PERFECT WORLD” (7/17) (Uniform formed in New York City in late 2013 when old friends Ben Greenberg (Hubble, The Men, Pygmy Shrews) and Michael Berdan (York Factory Complaint, Drunkdriver, Believer/Law) realized they lived on the same street. Their impulsive collaboration quickly yielded the 2014 Our Blood/Of Sound Mind and Body single. The six tracks that make up the equally abrasive but more refined Perfect World have been coming together between tours and work ever since. The music that Greenberg and Berdan conjure up under the Uniform moniker is immediate, aggressive, and even primal in form, but it plumbs untold depths. Berdan's venomous voice mines deeply personal themes of resentment, regret, reflection, and addiction over the hum of Greenberg's almost impossibly disciplined guitar, bass synth, and drum machine lines. Greenberg uses the word "templatized" to describe their approach to writing songs for Uniform. "There's this set bunch of gear to create sounds, and it only creates sound through a certain process, or within its own limitations," Greenberg says. "The goal of songwriting is to see how many different kinds of sounds you can get from the same basic process and machine." On Perfect World, that machine is firing on all cylinders. The guitar is run through a cheap '80s preamp marketed to metal kids. The drum machine is equally no-frills, an Akai XR20 that Greenberg says "most people wouldn't want to keep around." These humble components are combined with noisy synth and Berdan's profound howling to form something much greater. Post-punk, synthpunk, and industrial traditions are borrowed from as needed, but the constraints placed on the process mean the result is unique to Uniform. Berdan describes his lyrics as the consequence of feeling "so full of pain, confusion, deep selfishness, and general animosity that you make some horrible mistakes and have to learn how to forgive yourself for them." Perfect World feels like the sum of all that pain and confusion, but it also feels like the catharsis.)

22. WHITE REAPER-“WHITE REAPER DOES IT AGAIN” (7/17) (White Reaper Does It Again: a raucous debut full-length from a bunch of barely 20-somethings who have more fun on a Tuesday night than you do on a Saturday. Recorded in White Reaper’s hometown of Louisville, KY, with engineer Kevin Ratterman (Young Widows, Coliseum), WRDIA is a pure rock ’n’ roll adrenaline shot: vicious guitar scratches, elastic bass, sugary keyboard leads, and a thudding drums that will inevitably give your heartbeat a new rhythm.)

NEW RELEASES 2015 WEEK # 27 JULY 10, 2015

JULY 10, 2015 (WEEK # 27)

1.    THE ACT-“LOVE AND HATE” [2-CD THE BEST OF ACT ON 2 CD’S] (7/10) 

2.    SARAH CRACKNELL-“RED KITE” (7/7) (File : SAINT ETIENNE. New 2015 solo album from their frontwoman ... her first in 18 years! Cameo by Nicky Wire from Manic Street Preachers. ) 

3.    ENVY-“ATHEIST’S CORNEA” (7/10) (Despite its relative brevity (at 43 minuntes it is Envy's shortest album since their early 90s thrash days), Atheist's Cornea is easily the band's most progressive work. Beginning with a punishing pummel, holes of light are gradually punched open to reveal an uncanny series of dynamic, emotionally charged epics. Not only does Atheistʼs Cornea showcase some wholly unexpected new turns for Envy, it also often reaches transcendent heights that could overwhelm a major blockbuster film — all while vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa sings, screams, and speaks like his life depended on it. Atheist's Cornea is the purest, most distilled example of Envy's brand of brilliance. It is also their bravest album, taking new risks with a much welcomed, broader vocal palette and an instrumental experimentation that navigates blistering shifts from impenetrable noise to poetic, pin-drop introspection with astounding grace. Envy have finally mastered the art of being effective and efficient without sacrificing an ounce of either – a truly inspired evolution from a band whose mastery of both remains unparalleled.)

4.    ESE-“ALL IN” (7/10) (“Ese hails from Houston, Texas. They are a rough-and-tumble outfit from the streets. When they hit the stage, everyone can tell they mean business. That's exactly what Sudden Death's Joey Shithead saw when Ese opened for D.O.A. a few years back. He exclaimed, "Wow, Ese is like the Tex-Mex Motoerhead--they blew the doors off of that joint." About a year later, Shithead saw Ese again in Texas. The band stomped their proverbial stomping grounds in such a menacing way, he happily agreed to sign them to Sudden Death. The end result is Ese's new album All In. It's a wild and unbridled marriage of rock 'n' roll and punk that has not been seen for some time.From the kicking opening track "Badass Fatass" to "Ghetto Ese Style," these boys mash power riffs nonstop into your cranium. You'll be screaming for more, and that's what you get as they blaze through "Pissed Off," "Texas Guns" and the saucy "Guacamole (Texas Tornados)." Ese will kick your ass with All In, one of the rawest and best rock 'n' roll albums of 2015.” MIDHEAVEN MAILORDER)

5.    FOUR TET-“MORNING / EVENING” (7/10) 

6.    LITTLE BOOTS-“WORKING GIRL” (7/10) (Dance-pop sensation Little Boots delights with her third LP, Working Girl, produced by Jas Shaw of Simian Mobile Disco, super producer Ariel Rechtshaid, SZA collaborator Patrick Lukens, MNDR's Pete Wade, and Com Truise. Filled with her signature airy vocals, uplifting melodies and clean interplay between synths and beats, the 13 song LP pulls at the parameters of pop but remains true to its indie dance core.)

7.    LUCY ROSE-“WORK IT OUT” [DELUXE EDITION] (7/10) 

8.    SLOW CLUB-“I SWAM OUT TO GREET YOU” (7/10) 

9.    SUPERCHUNK-“COME PICK ME UP” (7/10) 

10. TREMBLING BELLS-“THE SOVEREIGN SELF” (7/10)

11. VERUCA SALT-“GHOST NOTES” (7/10) (Ghost Notes is the first new album from Veruca Salt featuring all original members (Nina Gordon-Vocals & Guitar, Louise Post-Vocals & Guitar, Steve Lack-Bass, Jim Shapiro-Drums) since 1997's certified gold album, Eight Arms To Hold You. Formed in Chicago, IL in 1993, Veruca Salt took the indie-rock world by storm with their first single 'Seether' from their debut album, American Thighs. For their first record in almost two decades Ghost Notes, the band enlisted producer Brad Wood (Smashing Pumpkins/Sunny Day Real Estate/Liz Phair) who also produced their debut release.)

12. WAVVES & CLOUD NOTHINGS-“NO LIFE FOR ME” (7/10) (The highly anticipated collaborative album between Nathan Williams of Wavves and Dylan Baldi of Cloud Nothings via Williams' own imprint, Ghost Ramp. The album was recorded at Williams' home during two sessions between March 16th-March 26th 2015 and June 1st-June 10th 2014 with production from Sweet Valley.)

13. WHITE POPPY-“NATURAL PHENOMENA” (7/10) (Crystal Dorval from Vancouver, Canada, has been making healing, distorted rug-gaze music from a coastal mindset all her own since 2011. Natural Phenomena is her second album, and it echoes 2013's self-titled effort in its isolationist origins, as the record emerged slowly across a nine-month retreat alone on a farm on Vancouver Island: "Some days I would only add one tiny guitar line or keyboard texture and that would be it for the day... it was a long process." However grueling and gradual the method, what accrued is gold--ten of Dorval's deepest dreamdives, starry ambient pools and dissolved guitar designs, ghosted through a lens of grey-skied pop. Songs wax and wane across faded rainbows of guitar, sunrise keyboards, looped percussion and vocal ocean-spray. Behind Dorval's gauze of warm noise glows something pure and newer than new age: "My hope is that these positive feelings will be communicated sonically, or in essence, and will be enriching for listeners." A high height for a climbing talent; White Poppy blooms on cliffs of light.)