Insularia intertwines delicate female crooning with gloom-tipped tantalizing string arrangements, calling to mind 4AD and C’est La Mort’s ethereal heydays.
Difference Engine’s flowers are not as stately as roses, and they certainly have no thorns to add an interesting dichotomy of beauty and masochism to the mix.
Self Made Maniac can be listened to, absently hummed, or dissected by a music reviewer who’d rip the stuffing out of it if he could only find a loose thread.
With tunes that rise and fall in pigtail-bouncing chromatic progressions, this music lends itself to being sung in loud, easy harmonies, cruising down I-95.