Without being formally aware of any musical formulas, rules, or genre boundaries, Ahmad approaches his music with a child-like enthusiasm and innovation, coupled with extensive experience as a resident DJ.

In many ways, the album cover fits the music within, which on one hand has these dark overtones, and on the other, still is moving in its dark beauty.

Essentially, Lucille shows how ‘basic’ singer-songwriter music can sound good.

Feder doesn’t actually use direct musical quotes, but picks up tiny strands of other’s music and then arranges them in a manner that he sees fit.

Nouat manages to give both the spoken word and the music he combines a balance that such a combination requires.

On the evidence of ‘Mynd’, Pike has both the ability and inventiveness in abundance to carry him through something that could have been just a mundane musical impression.

The key to why this album works is that McClintock has a nifty touch with song structures and layered arrangements that give his music here that extra touch.

What could have turned into an incomprehensible mishmash comes out as a great-sounding post-punk experiment.

There is no chaos here, just an excellent set order, that sounds both familiar and different at the same time.

Frankly, Bousfield makes the point she intended in full presenting her ‘Salesforce’ as a complete musical force.

All of the interpretations here are almost perfect, with Wagner’s intricate touch shining throughout.

It is exactly that emotional involvement that gives Suburban Spell’s ‘Falling Down’ that elevates the electronic sounds to another level.

They could really become special friends with this kind of music.

Here, Faunas cover a much wider ground by staying true to their initial concept and sound, something it takes other artists a few albums to achieve.

The key thing here is that Lanayah were able to neatly wrap up all the influences and present them in a cohesive (and very heavy) whole.

The quality of such music always relies on ability, imagination, and inventiveness, and all three artists involved have ample all of those in ample reserves, making this album quite an intriguing listen.

It is Dias Gomes’ song structures, subtle and complex guitar-playing, and quite gentle vocals that dominate this album.

The result is nothing less than amazing, getting that meditative, spiritual feeling LeBrecht was after, turning this album into quite an achievement.

No matter what musical route Lowe and Mueller take, the results are nothing less than exceptional and utterly satisfying musically, coming up with yet another great Balmorhea release.

That classical music background Georis has surely created an ability to make musical sense out of improvisational themes, and Georis utilises it to the best effect on Cloud Suites.

Loveblind gives a bit more than just dominating guitar sound, it gives some very tight, skilful shoegaze that doesn’t want to go away. And it shouldn’t