This music is amazingly beautiful -- crushing, soaring, gorgeous, and intensely ambient. I was lucky enough to get to see Manual play in Chicago, in October 2007, and he took us magnificently into space, with a crisp view of the coastline. All of his albums have their own atmosphere, but this one is the best -- connected somewhere in space to a 1989 beach house in September -- gentle, thrusting, hazy, intense, sad, and lovely.