cfcf - exercises

CFCF

Exercises
Paper bag/dummy; 2012

4 out of 5

This is a deciptively sophisticated atmospheric ambient work. Low-key, subtle, tasteful, mature and a very delicious sense of melancholy. I highly recommend sampling the track titled "December" to get a good taste of what this EP has to offer. The tracks have few elements, and their development is so slight that they seem almost not to progress at all, yet they never grow stale, never over stay their welcome, and keep drawing me back for repeat listens. In fact, in the short time I've had this CD, played it more times in any single week than I've played Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works in all of the years I've owned it.