This is a bit special to say the least - the debut of keyboardist Rupert Cox who has been regularly cropping up in these pages on other people's records lately. There's a lot fed in here ranging from clubbier beats on 'The Nowhere Dance' to more sombre meditations. The moody vocals from Soren Bryce on the title track certainly also light the album up. It all just sounds very fresh, managing to swerve nu jazz clichés along the way, with songs written by Cox and Chris Hyson mainly. Snowpoet man Hyson produces and in the personnel Dave De Rose on drums, Linus Fenton on bass guitar, Yusuf Ahmed on percussion, Alex Haines and Thom Gill on guitar - Gill takes a fine featured spot on standout track 'Sanctuary' - Hyson himself on synths and Mohan Evans on vocals on the vivid 'Gold' figure. You can't really pin such an outstanding album down to anything too generic. And Cox's piano playing on the quietly moving 'Green Yellow Brown' is the icing on the cake.
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