It would be challenging to try and pigeon hole Melodic Energy Commission's music. Think early 60's/vintage psychedelic meets Mojave 3 and Syd Barret age Pink Floyd, and then toss in the cadence of Primus. The group states the album is best listened to in its entirety, as "all songs are joined together with thematic instrumental interludes with a common effect of taking one on a journey out of time". Perhaps their words describe it best. "Beehive Jive" opens the album with ambient sounds, funky rhythms and playful vocals followed by incremental chants. "Moon Surfing" sounds like a wild instrumental plucked from Tom Waits Mule Variations. "Lifting Wave" is Stereolab on acid caught in a Grateful Dead space set. "I Be" marries Aphex Twin-style panning effects with hovering synths and tribal percussion. There is darkness to the music here, a haunted feeling. "Figure It" waxes poetic on differing perceptions of time and concepts of awareness, the seeming goal being the listener's detachment from their current state-of-mind. "Crystal Cave" continues that haunting vibe with floating dark synths and reverbed flutes. "Underground Summit" caps the album with more eeriness, sounding like the close of a Michael Stearns album. MM