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Title: Adrift in space
Review: Per Aspera Ad Astra is a relatively short album (EP?) at just over 40 minutes, but that shouldn't deter you from buying it. This is some of Stars of the Lid's best work - smooth, comforting, but simultaneously a lot more interesting than most of the ambient music it's competing with. It really is evocative of the sky at night, and introduces such radical things as violins and - gasp - percussion into the SotL vocabulary.Regarding Jon McCafferty's contribution I'd say it isn't terribly noticeable. The album cover is very appropriate for the music contained inside, but the field recordings don't do much besides pique my curiosity about what and how McCafferty was painting at any given moment. There's little synchronicity between the brush strokes and the flow of the music. It doesn't matter much though, because the recordings are intentionally faint and only add to the overall mood of the CD.
