Yep, bland is the word
I've tried, but I still don't warm to it. Like the other reviewers, I've been wild on Reich and Glass in my time, but this is thin stuff.
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A pretty bland album
Not much more than a whole slew of other ambient composers. This disappoints. As for it being required for anyone who gets Reich, I've been a Reich fan for thirty years, and this Adams doesn't hold a candle to Reich. The music is in no way similar; it's more like pale versions of some of Harold Budd's longer works, or Holger Czukay's ambient music.
Ding, ding, ding..
Unless you really like this genre, I wouldn't recommend this album. It sounds like a old pianist suffering from Parkinson constantly banging the same keys over and over again. It may be magical for a few minutes, but it keeps going through the entire album.
Like Glaciers passing in the night
The cover art for this album is a perfect match for the slow moving collisions of subambient swells like glaciers inching their way closer and closer along with tinkling percussion like ice-cicles dropping tiny particles onto sheets of shimmery glass. *Required listening for anyone who gets Reich.
