Ingredients: all of the audio samples you can muster, some acoustic guitars, some sombre lyrics and some weird ass cover art. Mix this all together clumsily and you get the latest offering from Dream into dust.

Its not all doom and gloom though. This album has some good ideas in it. The vocals are soft and are not unlike that of Radiohead`s Thom Yorke. Some better songs are in the beginning with "disconnected" and "how the roses burned" with some appropriate sampling and acoustics to match. But the album fails to hold my interest. While listening I quickly get bored of the atmospheric sampling sounds and yearn to hear the more traditional acoustic sounds to come through a bit more on the CD.

The worst of the sampling occurs in the song "sleep in dead time" where it was so off I thought the CD was skipping or I had finally witnessed an effect of the recent solar bursts. After that the songs begin to sound similar with the voice of Derek Rush eventually becoming monotonous. You get the feeling that they would have been better off releasing an EP or collaborating with other artists as ideas become repeated later on in the album with worrying frequency.

So apart from the odd good moment on this CD the whole thing begins to sound like one long song which is a pity because the voice of Rush screams potential but sadly just doesn`t deliver.