Excerpt – “The opening two tracks “Wendy Carlos” and “Solo in una strada affollata” are beautiful, running into one another seamlessly, setting the tone for the rest of the record: these guys can play. From there, they show how you can include vocals in an instrumental record without it sounding shit (”Cendre in” and “Cendre out”), how to make drums sound really cool by feeding them through a phaser (”Ivano Menchetti”), and how to end an album by setting up a heavenly wall of guitars, repeating them over and over until the listener is rapt with wonder, and then abruptly cutting out, like Talk Talk’s majestic “Ascension Day” off Laughing Stock (”Tutto si dimentica”).”
Hidden Shoal MixTape
