LOCKJAW is up first with a
moody yet optimistic progression through the traffic. There are upbeat
and urgent tones just on the dry side of squelch, with arpeggiators
emerging from the white noise of the hats' long tails into clean synth
work, as elongated tones gently push their way out of the filter,
drawing out against the shorter synth loops that shimmer and echo
with tight delays.

AROUND comes in punchier and with more pronounced percussion,
gives a sense that something is up, and haze has been left behind.It
acts as a precursor to more arpeggiated bass tones, gently
meandering as they make their way to menacing metallic chords and
modulations, allowing the keys which follow to have a sense of place
before you're pushed back into grooves and reprise.

ADAPT builds a slow and steady groove layered with, rather than
punctuated by, metallic soaked chords like Basic Channel in bed with a
fever. Vocal loops and lead lines creep their way out of the filter and
cymbals gently exhale into, then inhale out of existence, blending with
the reverberating chords and sedated pads which weave their way
among the foggy reflected tails.

CONTACT slows things back down but punches through harder, with
expansive sinister tones from the word go, in a Carpenteresque fashion
that suggests it's now time to make that Escape From Los Angeles. A
feeling perpetuated by the vocal samples, pulsing synths and slower
arpeggiated bass which act as groundwork for clean, moody strings
and chords which perfectly round out this dystopian futurescape.[info sheet from distr.]