OMG I love this album! I have been listening to it for the last couple hours and it is currently still playing as I write this review which is really just going to be me gushing about how awesome All India and this album are. That's what I do now apparently, at least for the last week or so since it came out. I get home, put on this album and listen to it for two or three hours before forcing myself to turn it off (or turn the volume down) and do something productive. It's just so easy to get lost in their music. The songs really take the listener on quite the musical journey. They have a way of subtly evolving and building and building until they reach an amazing climax and it's like you don't even realize what happened until it's over and you are sitting their eyes closed, mouth open, drooling in awe. Then you play it again.I love All India Radio. Years ago I heard a little song called Four Three and immediately obtained everything I could find by them. I have yet to be disappointed. Their music is mainly instrumental, a beautiful mixture of live instrumentation and electronic soundscapes and ambient backgrounds. Their discography ranges from pure ambience to dynamic and intense instrumentals with the occasional vocal, which is a pretty good description for this album as well. They really have a sound uniquely their own but fans of Air, Thievery Corporation, Zero 7, and other similar electronic outfits will appreciate All India Radio.The songs Can You Hear The Sound and The Slow Light are a few standouts for me (but the whole album is great). The song Twelve is probably my favorite at the moment though. It is haunting and beautiful and awesome. It is everything I want in music. All the boxes are checked. Before I wrote this I actually listened to that song like four times in a row and probably could have kept going but apparently this is the productive thing I am doing today. Anyway, to sum up: All India Radio is great. This album is great. If you are thinking about checking it or them out, stop thinking and do it. If you already like them but haven't checked this one out you won't be disappointed.
