

Just as it has settled itself in, it already fades out, creating a feeling of being cut shorta rare experience in a world of 23-track streaming albums where you often want less of whatever you are listening to. Many of the tracks sound like the artist wrote a full-length track and then rendered out a random thirty second sectionalthough perhaps that is the point Take Laurie Spiegels wonderfully crystalline and utopian space opera Fly By, which ends in an abrupt and unsatisfying manner. But while a sub three-second framework requires a total rethinking of compositional time, thirty seconds end up feeling neither here nor there. The press text even mentions Eno's infamous Windows 95 micro-composition. Still, arbitrary track length limitations can be an inspiring compositional tool.
