This is a quite progressive album -tracks often beginning with only some field recordings or a layered vocal effect before building into much, much more - but it's not needlessly so, for these three songs are all one-time, one-take sessions of Lichens on his own at three different locations with no overdubbing or editing whatsoever.  Full text...

Lowe will permit himself the luxury of a genuine revision or two.  Full text...

The Psychic Nature of Being sounds remarkably similar -- natural, unexplainable, unpremeditated but deeply musical.   Full text...

Lowe has taken two common currencies of the current underground - processed wordless vocals and American Primitive-style, finger-picked guitar.  Full text...

This is the definition of minimalism, yet there's so much to take in.   Full text...