Metallic stridencies that seem to emulate the sharp cry of a sparrowhawk or maybe of a phoenix, echoes of distant thunders, the buzz of rising voltage, magnetic resonances of lacerated guitars and electrified gurgles and cavernous pealing open this new impressive release by Scottish musician and former collaborator of Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil Gordon "The Freeze" Sharp aka Cindytalk, whose renaissance seeped through a series of acclaimed reissues and four astonishing albums on Editions Mego. Mr.Sharp bravely decided to change course towards darker non-music sonorities on "touchedRAWKISSEDsour", but Cindytlak's flair in forging entrancing soundscapes turns obscurity into dazzling sheen. The tracks which come after the initial "Dancing On Ledges" seem to get focused on layering of abstract noises, which singularly seem to render hallucinations or nightmares, whose overlapping emanates the psychotropic features of Cindytalk's sonorities: both "Fire Recalling Its Nature", whose abrupt stop occurs when the track seems to rise towards mystical levels, and "Mouth Of My Sky (Open Up And Swallow Me)", where an evanescent melody seems to get blown over a desolate industrial escape, smell like sonic reports from netherworld, while the lysergic wire drawing and scrapes of electronically processed guitars over syncopated noises which sound like the noise of unlocked wooden doors on "Reversing The Panopticon" and the following "E Quindi Uscimmo A Riveder Le Stelle", named after the last line of Dante's first book of the Divine Comedy "Inferno", which manages to render resurfacing from obscure tunnels underworld to nocturnal glimmer, sound like proper sonic rites of liberation. After the cathartic placidity of "Yugao", where Gordon brings to light both that airily anaesthetic piano featuring some of his recent releases and his mania for Japanese music, Gordon seal all the previous leaks with the mesmeric storms of "Mystery Sings Out", where the mysterious Cindy finally talks (and "sings").