"Life in windscreen" drags you aboard a big wobbly platform and plays ping pong with your ears, just for a laugh, whilst bassy tones drop from the sky and slowly pull back up again leaving traces of menace scattered with playfulness to zip and flip around like drunk paperclips. This track is as crisp as a freshly opened harddrive and as layered as 700 million trifles. Awesome stuff.

"For you" invites you to swim in the a lake formed of marmalade and frozen milk capsules, whilst the early morning murmurings and movements from the artificial rushes cast a friendly shadow over everything taking place, and the smooth guitar strums and gentle piano tinklings keep it all in check.This one unrolls itself into a broad imaginative slice of clever music, cool stuff. "Hilltop" drops a more underground style and takes elements of john carpenter esque soundtrack atmospherics from the very beginning.A heavy broody bassline, sits beneath a skipping and stuttering lifeform which seems to be completely cast from light that spreads a warm layer of peace over all in view. Check it.

"Midnight" finishes off the release with a blend of piano and spaceship conversation, that catches your eye in the dark of the night and has you in an evil trance. Spindly laser strikes scuttle throughout as the hissy gas powered melody gently rolls itself along, powered by leaves and discarded batteries which still have a part to play. Really thought out and mesmorising stuff.

Happy birthday to me slides another quality page into the c.v of Mint. The release is full of atmopshere and plays like a history of something special captured on a cd in audio form for us all to enjoy. Definetly one to check out.

Recommended!

Sam