Excerpt: "The eight tracks, driven mainly by guitar and/or piano with slight  electronic tinkering, straddle a fine line between modern classical and  drone. It's very expressive music, painting ghostly images of barren  wilderness and other forms of magnificent desolation... This type of music certainly encourages looking for the little things, trying to search out individual notes submerged in a sea of reverb, and <em>Close, But Not Too Close</em> has a lot of aural Easter  eggs waiting to be discovered... less a collection of songs than it is  pure mood, an audible fog that seeps from speakers to bathe home  stereos in frozen moonlight."

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