This collection is an amalgam creature, a thing formed by the gluing together of 'found' tapes and drifting live performances. Each piece is sprawling, and mostly somewhat passive, with guitar and bass at the very heart of each structure. But don't expect post-Hippy, Semi-New-Age Prog Rock onanism - the nearest people I could compare this to is a shaggy hybrid of THROBBING GRISTLE (they know subtlety makes for a more chilling effect) and CONTRASTATE (dark, cold, and seeming to have a tale to tell). And while you figure the album entire was created by one group, there's sufficient variety of approach and execution to keep your attention. I know reverb can trick the senses, but you feel that this was recorded live-to-mic in a large room. On the handful of places where they shrug off the subtlety, the stark noise (bare-sparky-wire electric) has a more profound effect on the senses (think abstract PAN(A)SONIC with no attempt at rhythmic structure). Not sure they'd ever have made it BIG (I refer to them in the past tense as this is now quite an old tape), but their raw atmospherics show an unwillingness to follow the herd. Originally reviewed for Soft Watch.