Masterfully mastered by Taylor Deupree, this release by New York-based experimental composer and visual artist Austin Rockman is quite different from his debut "Plum God": even if his ability in hooking and let the listener focusing on entrancing details as if he acts like a magnifier of imperceptible aural entities, he seems to pass the cloth over some slightly wrinkled dissonances as well as setting aside synth-driven or sample-based recordings to focus on the sound of acoustic guitar, whose effects are mostly aimed to make its sound brighter and cleaner. Similarly, the aural entities - mostly sporadic field recording - are other than intrusive presences, that together with guitar sound are cloaked into frequencies whose dynamics could be described by bedsheets or leathers launched from the peaks of any skyscrapers of Austin's New York. Sometimes it's not easy to identify their source, but this peculiarity manages to stimulate listener's fantasy as it happens, for instance, with a sound, that firstly appears on the title-track "Our Own Unknown" and it clearly reappears on the following "Kissed By Her Witness", which could resemble a tickling clock, a sort of slow trampling or hits on mountains of sand. The awareness, that descriptions often gelds the intrinsic beauty of any artifact, maybe inspired its title "Our Own Unknown", but apparently it's also a statement by the artist, referring to a sense of hidden detachment from reality, which often absorbs and enucleates our souls even against our will, and such a feeling exudes from almost every movement. Stylistically, it's funny to notice some weird similarities with artists mentioned by some reviewers of his music. In particular, I enjoyed "All Other Futures", where I feel traces of William Basinski (a great electronic musician whose path got intimately connected to New York, if you know the bizarre coincidence related to his first album The Disintegration Loops), but also of his relatively recent hooks to Atlantic jazz and so-called cocktail music by means of his collaborative project Sparkling Division with Preston Wendel. I can recommend a listening just to beautify a moment of escapism (or detachment...).