Mahogany

What Will Become of the Key of Reason?

Clairecords

If there's one thing that defines these four songs it's their graceful parabolic shape, an ebbing and swelling layering of heartbeat rhythms, billion-measure chords, ghostly vocals, and more. It's too irregular to be properly dance, and too repetitive to let anywhere near a radio -- like Stereolab stripped of gadgetry and outfitted with an orchestra, as in the second track, "In Fulfillment of the Enthusiastic." Four songs in less than twenty minutes is just a glimpse into this strange confluence of chaos. Clairecords, P.O. Box 13299, Gainesville, FL 32604-1299

--Ian Koss