This new vinyl release from Reanimation includes the record (complete with lyric sheet as part of an inner-sleeve) along with a download code. The music on this has a lot of different textures. The sounds range from 80s electronic music to psychedelia, space rock, shoegaze, Beatles-esque things and more. This is quite an intriguing set. My main complaint is that the mix seems a bit muddy and lacks distinct clarity. I think that was probably a conscious choice, but for me it always feels a little distracting in the sort of distance it creates.

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Some trippy atmospherics lead this into being. As it continues there are hints of some things like The Beatles, but by this point it really hasn't risen up far yet. As the vocals join it really takes on a bit of a psychedelic, space rock vibe. That holds it for the first set of vocals. Then it fires upward into some killer rocking prog. That is alternated with that psychedelic, Beatles type sound as the piece continues.

Atmospheric elements start this number. It eventually works outward from there. It's a moody cut that has a definite 80s sound at its heart. Further down the road it powers up into a harder rocking jam that again has some of that shoegaze kind of thing at its heart. It drops back to some weird atmospherics with vocals over the top. Then those elements drop away leaving just the voice for the final measures.

A dense arrangement with Beatles and some 70s rock trappings merging with 80s sounds and more makes up the early sections of this. It shifts out to a harder rocking jam that's more of a soaring space rock leaning type of music. It works through and drops to mellower stuff to continue. The more sedate segment eventually ends the piece.