THE LEFT PANEL

The 19:17 title track shows BUCKETHEAD's mellow and melodic side which is similar in style and musical structure to albums like "Colma" and "Electric Tears" with a nice mellow guitar tone, slow tempo and drum beat set to sappy ballad. The tracks seems to be on a repetitive loop as it goes on and on and on and on and on and on and??.. on :/

"Strips Of Paper" at 10:39 is slightly more upbeat. The tempo is still as slow as molasses but the guitar playing is on blues mode albeit snail's-pace blues mode. Although nothing new under the sun, this one is a bit more pleasant to listen to as there are a few more guitar tones, bends and squeals taking place and the pace does pick up a bit towards the end but just like the title track tends to go on and on and on a wee bit too long.

For me this is one of the highest scorers on the MEH-mometer. A nice relaxing care-free listening experience if you've just had a lobotomy or just find Air Supply too hard core, so unless you're interested in a possible soundtrack for a lychee and raspberry crumble, i'd do well to skip this one, i would.