...‘The Last Song’ bleeds into ‘But Still I Feel It Happens All Too Soon’ and we’re seemingly stranded in a deeply moving place, drenched in regret but also lifted by the exquisite turns of musical phrase that develop out of the elongated sub-orchestral curvature, all rather like the thing you get from Projekt artists, only on a larger level. Projekt-Plus, if you will, given that ‘The Fathomless’ is a ravishingly pretty and utterly transporting instrumental that you’re hoping will never end.
I’m sure I didn’t understand the overall themes, as the personal, the fantasy and the ostensibly overriding seem to widen then never regroup, but it is a spellbinding album. True, the outdated expression in certain segments hurl us back through the decades but these are curious moments, maybe momentous curios, and the overall feeling is one of real majesty...