In due time, the piece comes to reveal basic musical building blocks with increasing clarity, rising out of itself as though out of a pit and into an oddly compelling, snail-paced hymn.
The work suggests plenty of space, with a real physical force colored by an awe that is consistently and quietly ecstatic - like one felt when the intentional threads slacken and the world flies up like sparks from a fire. "Part II" plays out like a memory insofar as it essential re-imagines the first piece. As a field with depth, texture, and variable light, it preserves both the enigma and the intimacy of the former while differently organized shapes and flows of energy achieve a more mysterious expressive sensibility. Where the first piece gradually became strangely luminous, furthermore, this piece contains more right angles, and its swooning, limpid drift sounds squeezed through a noxious low pass filter.
Coming from somewhere else is the third and final movement, "How Do You Like Your Blue-Eyed Boy, Mr Death?". It's something of a sinister, creepily chirruping substance, wrangled by spidery sonic slippages and a more volatile undercurrent of deranged digital interaction and bleakly bowed guitars. All of the sounds stay within precise specifications and it comes across as finely weighed and complete. An awkward gap separates it from the proceedings moments, however, and as a result the album falls somewhat short of being a finished piece. But even so, Layton's feats on this album amaze and delight in a good many other ways.
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