This is the long awaited follow up to 2002's 'More Than The Other' album and is likewise produced by Graham Sutton of legendary post-rock band Bark Psychosis and also Boymerang fame.
It was his involvement which actually drew me to take a closer peak at this album. I have to say that by and large it leaves me feeling slightly underwhelmed. It's not that it's a bad album but partly, with certain tracks at least, I feel it has been done better.
Opener 'Sightless is a case in point with its spoken word vocals from author Scott Heim. They seem like an afterthought and it ends up sounding a bit clichéd. The album as a whole sounds like a bit of a love letter and that gives it a good sense of unity but whilst the female vocals might lend it an air of ethereality and forlornness, they don't engage me enough to care what happens either way. After the opening track things seem to drift around a bit aimlessly and whilst 'Genie' is a good album closer it might have been better to let it out of the bottle a bit sooner.
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