Like , ' first album for -- the musician's second for the label -- is buoyed by massaging flickers, gentle sound clashes between analog and electronic gear. While the handful of fully ornamented, full-blown songs are more affecting here than they are on , the sections that thrill the most occur during weightlessness -- the tendril-like guitars in the ambient harmonies in and the -worthy atmospheres in the closing Speaking of involves a swift, sluicing guitar solo that is one of the more impressive attempts at cloning 's sound circa . ~ Andy Kellman