The opener Genesis has a huge intro which builds and builds with picked notes that punctuate a back-drop of rising feed-back. I was reminded of a musical score with images of a desert and tumbleweeds and cut shots of a twitching hand poised over a holstered pistol. There wasn't much going on here and I expected the song to go somewhere (which it doesn't). Is it setting the scene for the rest of the album? I'm not sure but I felt it was a bit of an anti-climax - a bit weird as an opening track, which by rights should grab your attention and settle you in what's coming next. Solar is next with a twangy tone of minamalist arrangements and drums slowly piercing through. So far, this isn't an album to throw yourself about to; perhaps it's more an album for introspective beard-stroking? Half way in, the song picks up the beat a touch (but not too much).
Morose Land is swathed in feedback and is, finally, something a bit more punchy with overdrive and drums but it's an all too brief interlude. Beyond the Sun is more doomy, more droney but it's not enough. I'm over half way in with this album and it just hasn't taken off. Don't get me wrong; it's mellow enough to stick on the stereo and chill (and perhaps the band goes off in a live setting?) to but it's just not blowing me away.
Inertia appears to have the sounds of the playground through it; again it's twangy and atmospheric, as are the remaining tracks Time Stands Still and Home, but as a whole, this album just doesn't soar. I like it but more as a supplement to relaxing, not as a soundtrack for madness.
