Even the master himself must have noticed: you can only adorn so many songs with a dramatic slide guitar, a lamenting banjo and a scratching rhythm guitar whilst preaching sermons to the world, without repeating oneself. Not even when, as is the case with his "second band" Woven Hand, you operate more on an acoustic plane. Consequentially he grants the keyboards and the song structure more space on the second official opus (not counting "Blush", the onomatopoetic commissioned work).

True, the old priest can't really shed his skin and so the second Woven Hand work also sounds like a "16 Horsepower-light" album. Which, by the way, again leads to the question when at last will the long overdue new 16hp album be released?

Contents-wise Edwards once again serves strong meat and in the best Old Testament way he sets the burning world to music. If 16hp wouldn't exist, this would definitely be an unparalleled record. However now you can't resist the notion that this is more of a finger exercise (even though naturally on this record too, fervency and intensity are not economized on).