Mark Wilson has been putting out music under the moniker Conure for well over two decades. One thing I enjoy about this prohject is the variety – you often don't know what you're in for. Yu just know it's going to be good. The label describes this outing thus: “This piece sends the listener into a sort of nostalgic reverie of childhood vacations; distorted VHS recordings with wind blown mics, muffled voices and ambient sounds of living that you can almost make out...almost. It's a Madeleine cookie for the ears that will conjure up all of that bitter-sweet nostalgia you weren't aware that you've been craving.” Sounds good, so let's get into it.

This is one 60 minute track that can best be thought of as a composition with a series of movements. There is a lot going on in this piece. It begins with some really quiet static and high pitched feedback noise, like listening to a shortwave radio tuned between stations. Lots of hiss and crackle. This slowly becomes increasingly complex, with more elements being added into the mix. There are periods of vibrato bass with heavily flanged noise sweeping through, with grinding noise and squealing noise. Later, we have line noise that constantly cuts out over the ever-present crackle and hiss. Toward the end it becomes a bit more harsh, with plenty of low end rumble mixed with what sounds like heavily processed analog synth. It finishes out with high pitched warble and bass washes as the noise slowly fades out.

This is my kind of noise - everything gets thrown into the mix. But this is not haphazard or chaotic. Rather, this is well put together and carefully crafted. This can best be described as "quiet noise." It somehow manages to be noise, but for the most part it is not really all that harsh. If you like it noisy, but don't really want noise that is out to destroy your eardrums, this is well worth checking out.