Staggeringly beautiful and fearlessly original. Close to a decade on this still sounds like nothing else - more saturated and furious than Craig's later work, introspective and insightful, a master-level communication of impermanence and it's effect on our experience. The use of broken tape machines here is a practice of its own, far more than a colour effect on the artist's haunting singing and extraordinary synth arrangements and instead a collision of metaphor and the righteous welding of noise, unpretentious, confident, yet completely in tune with the tidal push and pull that such fleeting sounds create. There is such joy and fear and surrender in these songs, as the sea parts in "A Single Hope" so too does it flood… More