Insect Factory, Air Traffic Control Sleep (Insect Field)

Out of the recently-fumigated American capital come guitar textures courtesy of Jeff Barsky. Conservatory trained on his instrument, as Insect Factory he wafts colourful sound as intangible as perfume toward the listener. The heft of the first of three extended tracks, "Air Travel (In Sleep)", literally becomes thinner as it progresses, eventually emanating bell-like tones which resolve into a roundalay of slightly-distressed guitar, the first time the instrument really sounds like its "genuine" self. "Head Cloud Shells", the album..s half-hour centrepiece, is a seemingly unending free fall down the rabbit hole before ultimately landing softly in a musicbox Wonderland. The final track, a brief coda named "Landing Back on the Shore (By Morning)", is absolutely exquisite, with something of a slo-mo gamelan timbre about it.

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