Like
Surf Boundaries
,
Christopher Willits
' first album for
Ghostly International
Tiger Flower Circle Sun
-- the musician's second for the label -- is buoyed by massaging flickers, gentle sound clashes between analog and electronic gear. While the handful of fully ornamented, full-blown songs are more affecting here than they are on
, the sections that thrill the most occur during weightlessness -- the tendril-like guitars in
"New Life,"
the ambient
Free Design
harmonies in
"Intend-Evolve"
and
"Green Faces,"
the
On Land
-worthy atmospheres in the closing
"Flowers into Stardust."
Speaking of
Brian Eno
"Sun Body"
involves a swift, sluicing guitar solo that is one of the more impressive attempts at cloning
Robert Fripp
's sound circa
Another Green World
. ~ Andy Kellman