Dark, modern art music is the concept here. While this is mostly instrumental and on the mellower side of the equation, those things aren’t universal. There are some vocals, but they are rare and they aren’t sung vocals. This also rocks out at times. Leanings toward modern King Crimson are common, but there is a lot of other stuff at play, too. Label this as you like, it’s a very strong album. The lineup includes Pat Mastelotto, too.

Intricate and rather sedate guitar is a big part of the arrangement as this track gets underway. The number grows gradually, but still remains more on the mellower end of the spectrum. It gets fairly intense for a time later, but then drops way down again to sedate territory to take it to the end.

The rhythm section that opens this reminds me of Tony Levin era King Crimson stuff. The tune has a rather funky groove, but it’s also decidedly space rock, fusion and prog based. It’s a lot more rocking than the opener was.

Freaky sound effects and a short spoken section are the main things at play on this short connecting piece. It’s definitely freaky.

Dark and freaky, this is art music. It has a real space rock vibe. It also has a spoken female voice and topical lyrics. “King Crimson meets space rock” is probably a good description of this track.

The spoken voice from “Not Our Way” is heard on this track. The opening section is ambient, dark and alien like. Some jazzy things come up ever so slightly as this continues to grow. The voice goes away after a time and the cut works into a slow moving and evolving piece of spacey, King Crimson like weirdness that is very tasty. This is the epic of the set.

This piece combines freaky space weirdness with a jazzy horn. It’s fairly short, but also quite dramatic.

This has a cool retro vibe at play. It oozes cool and charm, but also fits with the artsy weirdness of the rest of the album. It shift out to some freaky noisy territory for a time later. Then the rhythm section takes over delivering its own style of magic. It drops way down for a short King Crimson-like interlude before powering back up to some crazed guitar based prog that is on fire.

This is an extremely short piece based mostly around ambient oddities.

There is some killer percussion built into this thing. The track has some trippy King Crimson like modes at play. I’m reminds of Bruford Levin Upper Extremities to some degree, too. We get a mellower, jazzy section later that features a spoken female voice and a horn. There are some weird elements in the mix at the same time, though.

Driving and hard edged, this is a real screamer in a lot of ways. It’s still trippy and artsy and outside the box. It has both jazzy elements and King Crimson like things as it continues. It also wanders toward space music later.

This is trippy and has a cool rhythmic groove to it. It’s definitely got some King Crimson like vibes and plenty of space music in the mix.

With a lot of acoustic guitar built into it, this is a little more grounded. It also has some more real vocals. I’m reminded a little of Pink Floyd. There are some dark vibes at play in the arrangement bringing a bit of an otherworldly vibe.