The forth album from Daniel Gerhard Holc is basically a pop album, well curated, without any true invention, uninnovative in a certain way but is that sort of thing someone could listen for hours. "Horizon", as an example, is a classic up tempo song that is perfect during a trip in a car. "Goodbye 1305" is a slow, emotional tune based on a guitar riff. With "whitelines / blacklines" the road returns to happier moods. "Crystals and Knives" is an almost post-rock track while "the black angel love song" use even an organ without being too romantic. This album continue in his journey between up-tempo pop and romantic ballads until "outtro" surprise the listener (and the reviewer too): more than twenty minutes instrumental track made out of all experimental ideas of this record: after an synth intro similar to some John Carpenter's soundtrack is slowly evolve in a minimal, solar tune that slowly evolve as a quite summer day down ending this record with a quite guitar pulse.
In the end, this is solid pop album that reveals clear ideas of songwriting and a careful production work. Even if this is not an experimental milestone, it's the type of record that will last in my iPod for a long time.