Maps & Diagrams - Get Lost (CD)

Well he's a bit silly isn't he, the man with all his maps AND diagrams and he still went and got all lost? Just kidding, it's nice to have a new full length outing from this legendary purveyor of classic ambient electronica and melodic IDM. Opening with some brittle, crackly ambience overlayed with a searching melancholic synth a la SAW2, it continues into more the cosmic territory of 'Below Sea Level', the Eno-esque piano that ponderously wanders throughout the buffeted drone of the ambient 'Floating Sculptures' The entire album sounds like a soothing astral journey through some familiar territory, sometimes zen-like in it's passivity. Occasionally darker, eerier pastures are stumbled upon such as on the ominous 'Timelines' but it's largely warmly enveloping territory you're engaged with. Ambient reflection and heavenly shimmering drones never sounded so lush & inviting surely? This old Zen master is back and you don't wanna ignore his calling...