Working with ambient-rock demigod can have an effect on a dearly innovative British studio team, as it has on with two previous ear-boggling efforts, both with Father at the helm. , seventh album in several busy but broken years, still resounds with ambient aesthetics, where even signature silences mark time in terms of sound. Old hand at synthetic pop and psonicadelia, keeps the wave alive with spacy zen minutes on the synth in as well as strange house dance gyrations on a happy, creaky piece. It's argued that sounds too much like but 1) sounds great, so? and, 2) no he doesn't really, but the energy-factor point is well taken. would be a great song sung by, say, or , but great vocal energy is a curious element to blend here among these complex quicksilver musicsmiths. One of the better vocally-driven tunes is probably the sardonic, techno-silly which winds up being the weirdest cut on another adventurous outing for . ~ Becky Byrkit