CiM – Reference

You rarely hear so many worthwhile ideas on a single electronic album. I agree that some songs should be longer, but it seems like while making one track, Walley got an idea for the next one, and quickly moved on. Who's to blame him. I prefer the CD because it has more tracks than the vinyl (it is also much cheaper).
Electronic music can take on characteristics of the machines which produced it --- it can also, and we know countless examples, sound profoundly human, tender, empathic, and sensitive, even without emulating instrumental music that existed before. In most songs here, CiM's juxtaposition of these qualities becomes a symbiosis. Listen to the glitching metallic beats of "Skim 2" stuttering forward like an ominous fax machine, the icy melody --- and then the pads arrive and what was mechanic then becomes a whisper in a sea of comfort and contentment. In "Blue Screen" this sequence is reversed to even greater accomplishment, and extended to over four minutes, to our delight. My favorite is "Cloud Cover". It hazily samples the basic melody of a Cuban big band standard and, to keep these weightless chords from floating towards the heavens, buttresses them with down-to-earth impatient drums.

For me this is an incredible and way underrated album. This is electro in its most melanchoholic beauty, both simple and unobtrusive, smooth and natural and incredibly powerful at the same time. IMHO very similar to Boards Of Canada in of emotions it can provoke. Very recommended!

Supreme Lush electronica from Simon Walley & I'm probably repeating myself again about this artist(check Do Not Multiply Models) but this is REAL Memory conjuring material! Lush pads,quirky crackly beats & the most memorable tracks of Electronica you're likely to hear, EVER!

Great for travels in Car & Walkman. Only quirk: Tracks are too short! He compels you into this dreamlike state & then you're abruptly awoken with it's quick close. Although you're immediately transposed into the next dreamy track. This is a classic album in my ears!!