Dwight Ashley, Four - 54m 48s

Tracks & Durations

1. I Saw A Thousand Swallows	8:05
2. Machina Ex Deus	3:26
3. Stranded II	8:08
4. The Art Of Standing	5:11
5. Holes Within Holes	7:06
6. I Swallowed A Thousand Saws	8:00
7. The Mighty Fallen Rust In The Sun	9:31
8. Best Of Times	4:04
9. Blank	0:06
10. Blank	0:06
11. Bonus Track	0:59

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Review

Nearly a hundred years after the seminal works of such expressionist composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ashley has taken the ambient/electronic sound palette and produced a nakedly neo-expressionistic reinterpretation of the genre that is at once exquisitely beautiful and profoundly disturbing. Beneath the deliciously gorgeous surface serenity of Ashley's compositions is an edgy discordance that suggests all is not well in this otherwise pretty world. A subtle intimation of malaise on Four's ethereal first track progresses into detachment, alienation, and finally psychosis in subsequent tracks, culminating in an arresting, hallucinatory dirge that sounds eerily like the soundtrack to an execution. If there were any question concerning Ashley's intent to provide the listener with a psychologically provocative experience, the cover art for Four - a colorless, mangled hand jutting forth from a bucolic backdrop, where distorted clouds intimate something about to go awry - leaves no doubt. True to expressionist principles, Ashley has crafted his music to seduce listeners into travelling through his psyche, and in turn, their own.

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