Chicago-based painter and actor Mark Andrushko, a.k.a. Delicate Noise, surprised everybody with a debut full length album that shows exceptional talent and maturity, for somebody that has never made any music before. Although he won't call himself a musician, the liberty to express thoughts and feelings within the comfort zone of a controlled environment such as music creation, seems to propel and instigate just the right nerves and instincts in the mind of this self-proclaimed private man. If it was foreseeable that his music would be intimate and a tad obscure, it wasn't easy to predict that it would sound this good. Blurring the line between the reverberated and dubbed out Massive Attack inspired alienated trip-hop electronica and the melancholy and melody of Depeche Mode's synth-pop, Delicate Noise wobbles from track to track with the pace of an artist who can (make you) appreciate space and subtlety. Less is more, and Mark understood that about sounds and layers. Maybe more so than about track count. I do think that if contained (read: "EP") these efforts would have been even more distinctive and remarkable, but since it is more about relaxing and enjoying the atmospheric anxiety and the enigmatic urban flavor of these tracks, I guess you can just roll with the flow, as ethereal as the flow is...