We're not feeling any love. At all. 0/10
?Instrumental guitar stylings that are relaxing, meditative, joyful, sensitive, ethereal and soothing.?
Primary genre: New age fingerstyle
Secondary genre: Smooth jazz
Instrumentation: Acoustic and electric guitars
See that, right there, we got a problem. That?s a damned lie. Sure there?s plenty of guitars, there?s guitars for fucken Africa ? quite reasonable finger-style guitar playin ? and bass too apparently, but there?s also retarded percussion (?real AND programmed?) and piano and synth muck all over this, ruining any chance that it might have been remotely listenable*. Mucklow thanks one Steve Lester in the liner notes ?for always saying ?man, you gotta record this??; if only someone along the line had also said ?for god?s sake have some balls and stop hiding your lamp under the bushel of ?production?.? (* ok well track 3 ?Moonlight Sands? and subsequent?s crematorium muzak put well fucken paid to that, didn?t it.) --
Stephen Clover (9 January, 2007)