Great!
I love this album--I really wish more musicians would adopt the approach of focusing on making MUSIC rather than being hipsters. But what's going on with track 11? It abruptly stops. Fix it!
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Amazing Music
The twelve tracks on the album blend beautiful and intricate melodies, low-fi minimalism, complex interplay and truly inventive and expressive avant-jazz improvisation. The cohesion and overall effect is scarily good. I can't say how much I've been enjoying it. I should say, however, that eMusic refuses to fix the broken track 12, and they really should re-title the artist to give Jessica Pavone credit as well.
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