How do you describe an album like this? Let me try and conjure up a picture for you. Well, for starters, this is fourteen tracks and one glorious hour that should command your utmost attention - your utmost attention from a horizontal position.
Prepare yourself to enter a state of complete relaxation, be warned it may take a certain amount of willpower to stop yourself from drifting off into nonsensical daydreams. Come with an open mind and expect more than a few surprises around every corner, or groove, as the case may be.
Prepare to be taken on a journey, transported by a whole concept. This is an album that's makes you remember just how good music can be and also just how, all too often, we are bombarded with complete shite.
The tracks on offer give you the glorious opportunity to experience many things. To open up and wallow in the moodiness and mystique of Mogwai ("No Religion"). To take flight with the psychedelic confusion of "Sgt Peppers" ("Non Resistance").
To reach the numbing depths that the silent poets dived to with "…Come", and to celebrate the kind of experimental approach embraced by Jade Warrior on their Floating World project - merging, the harshness of rock with electronica and muffled, laid back beats.
They come up with a whole picture that is often so beautiful that you just want to shut your eyes and melt back into it.
Indeed, it's not very often you come across an album like this - one which spells out pure quality from the word go. Trumpets, pianos, the most persuasive violins ("Born Spirit"), rock guitar that reeks of the seventies ("No Pain"), and vocals that sit so comfortably amidst the vast spectrum of moods and sounds ("For The One") that you can't separate them from the inanimate music makers.
Purely gorgeous, just gorgeous you have to buy it.
