Mixing six of his own tracks with two remixes of other artists’ works and two collaboration tracks, this album shows the drum’n’bass of Chris Wright’s Eschaton project, fusing deep-bodied and exquisitely-produced synth texturing with rapid-fire breaks.  The songs are given ample room to run, with just one dropping under six minutes, and the shaping of the non-break components flow along with impressive delicacy to their spacy, slow-rolling tones.

Unfortunately, the persistently high speed of the breaks, combined with a narrow range of those tempos and low-variance looping in contrast to the synth-work, leads the percussive elements to feel as if they’re dragging down the rest of the music with their apparent staleness.  Thankfully, there’s enough pauses in the beat deployment to allow for breathing room, and the late-coming (but stand-out) track “Ch’i” demonstrates Eschaton’s ability to better balance all his elements to excellent effect.  Despite high technical and production quality, it’s something of a mixed bag, but dnb fans looking for something with a psychedelic flair will find a lot to appreciate here.