2014-05-20 4:02:00 ¶ ●

By Marcy “Shadolith” Nabors and Paige “hrmnzr” Stanley

I can’t help but imagine that the 12-minute playtime is a bit of an in-joke in itself: it takes a long time to build a house hundreds of miles high. There’s a musical segment for each of the seven gates, and my favorite’s the sixth (starts around 8:20), which has a sort of mellow pop quality to it.

2014-05-31 4:01:45 ¶ ●

By Malcolm Brown

Pretty awesomely weird. Haunting, ethereal howls and chopped-up voices sort of muddle the first part (though, like What a Daring Dream, it’s clearly targeted towards a specific point in the comic). The last minute or so is more focused and ominous, and the coda gives the album a nice bookend.