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A fairly aggressive psychedelic sound explosion comes with Rain; wailing guitars, muted beats, electronic bursts, staccato keyboards tinklings and more converge dramatically for a rather "in your face" experience. A swift electric rhythm, sporadically clattering rhythmic effects, electronic warbles, bells and deep synth drones collide while Running With the Flood, another relatively chaotic (though interestingly listenable) form of ambience. More subdued surroundings await in Alone, on a Beach (4:25); guitar plinks, synth strings and elastically spacey warbles slowly swirl in a freeform intermingling.
Deep into the New World takes the listener into much spacier atmospheres, where wildly fluctuating alien radiowaves transfuse with rocket hum and interstellar bleeps to fill a 12-minute void, which slowly dissipates. Similarly extraterrestrial and laced with electric shimmerings, the boiling soundclouds of Measuring the Storm billow with a threatening intensity, though there seems to be a calm at its heart. Mingling with other brassy and/or electronic surges over a muted backdrop, strident theremin-like ripples waver through Blue Sky Darkening, which hovers over another completely alien dreamworld. Eventually the activity powers down to a drowsier pace, still steeped in fantasy and electricity.
Interestingly titled, Points Versus Waves seems to offer a bit of both; hyperactive arpeggios, distant e-beats, crazy blurbles and freaky oscillations face off against smoother sheets of electronic sound. It's a battle, so expect some insanity... Fortunately, one can soon recuperate in the most truly ambient track, Blues Unexpected (15:03); a bed of softly pulsating energy fizzles underneath while luxuriously relaxed tones waft overhead. Assorted ephemera passes by at intervals like flickering lights in a balmy nightsky, including an intrusion (perhaps that's the "unexpected" part?) by distorted tribal chantings and discordant electron bursts which rather stirs things up.
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