DARK MATTER

As reviewer gr8dane mentioned, there's a lot of Pink Floyd elements in this album. While Pink Floyd were excellent craftsmen of songs, melody and harmony, this album feels like a disjointed collection of short musical ideas. You know how musicians will often carry a recorder with them to capture short musical phrases that they come up with? They'll often refer back to these recordings when composing to pick up ideas for riffs, melodies, etc. that they then craft into full songs. Well, on this album, it feels like Jonesy just took the entire "tape" of all the short snippets and fully produced them into an "album".

On a positive note, the production values are stellar and some of these short musical bits were quite good, even beautiful. I wish Jonesy would've taken some time with some of these ideas and fleshed them out as there is some truly promising material here. They just weren't made into full songs.