Customer Reviews
The title track is the one. - By: R. Thompson, 01 Jan 2008 
When he wrote & recorded the first track on this album, Jason Pierce was touched by genius. It is stunningly beautiful & is the best thing he has ever written. The rest of the album is great but the title track is the one.
Float In Space/Drift In Time - By: The/Queen/Is/Dead, 05 Dec 2007 Before I bought this, I thought, this can't be that amazing, but you know what? It bloody is. The songs soar & fly like birds. In fact birds is the best way I can describe these songs, be they world-weary, exhausted birds (Home Of The Brave), young, energised birds (Electricity), old, dying birds (Broken Heart) or mysterious & stern birds (Cop Shoot Cop...). Its one of the best art-rock records of all time. In fact, screw that, its one of the best records of all time.
One Of The Greatest Albums Ever Made - By: Rjbeevers, 25 Oct 2007 You won't find a better album to listen to than this. It is simply magnificant. I have the original that came outin the tablet form with the intructions inside. If you can find it buy it. If not then buy the updated version you won't be displeased I assure you!!!
...you'll feel like your soul has been stretched somehow....one mind-blowing perspective-fusing supernova of an album....that redefines notions of bittersweet & love-hate to the point where everyday emotions seem very small indeed.
Melody Maker (06/14/1997)
Spellbinding, Truly The Work Of A Visionary - By: Mr. J. F. Marshall, 07 Jul 2006 Lower the lights, getin your favourite chair & turn up the volume; you'rein for a sonic treat. You really will feel like you are floatingin space. I fellin love with this album on my very first listen, just 4 days ago, & I've listened to nothing else since. There aren't words to describe the beauty of this music. The perfect tone & pitch of Pierce's voice, the light, feathery touches of the piano, the swing of the brass & harmonica, the sweeping strings & the truly magnificent choirs. I really cannot find the words to tell you how this album makes me feel. And as if the imagery of the music wasn't enough, there are the stark lyrics of naked emotion. "All I wantin life's a little bit of love to take the pain away". Perfect, says what it means. I was sold on the very first track; the overlapping vocal lines, the electric piano setting the moodin the background, building with layer upon layer until the brass thundersin from nowhere, sweeping you up & leaving the ground behind you. Buy it.
Note: The reviewers who claimed not to like the soundscapes on this album would probably have a stroke if they ever heard Radiohead's "Kid A".
Cool waves run over me - By: Awake, 16 Apr 2006 Recently rediscovered this album after listening to it a lotin 97/98. Better than I remembered it - life isn't usually like this!
It takes you through absolute highs from the spacey 'Cool Waves' to base lows of stringed fantismo 'Broken Heart' (which is my at-the-moment favourite song - listened to it about 15 timesin the last 3 weeks).
The eponymous opening track just builds & builds like a 20th century pachalbel's canon (in fact I think it must be based on it) & the lyric is beautiful. The whole album is great & I enjoy each song individually & together. It is really clever & textual music with many layers - sometimes I hate it when music is too clever but notin this case!
The influences are diverse (classical, blues, gospel)and you hear something new every time that you listen to it.
Can you tell that I really like it?
