A pretty, hooky, quietly strange album, labyrinthine with changes in tone and tempo. This is somewhere between art rock and prog, but it's so damned easy to listen to it's hard to peg it as either. It sounds like some lost Genesis album that should have followed Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, a blueprint for how that band could have transitioned towards pop with grace.
Full of baroque detail and forward-leaning production touches, this free associates and leaps through its own wormholes in an effortless dream. Most importantly, all of the strangenesses it conjures are in service of that phantasmal atmosphere - nothing feels done for its own showy sake.
I've still got some untangling to do on this one, but it's got my attention - it'll surprise you near-constantly, give it a listen if you're into that kind of thing 4/5
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