0th's "Tammy", the debut release on Resipiscent, is a saunter through soundfields so lush as to obliterate sky one moment, brush your cheek and crack you open laughing the next. Power and perfect ease mark its range. From wagging boogie bounce beats to savage noise, whether it's the pummeling "Purple Dragon," prickling tension of "War", or each snap-awake interlude of "Vocal Beauty" that spring up throughout the album, 0th unearth musical innovations that seem always to have been possible but that never were plumbed before. "Tammy" refuses to choose between the dark, the danceable, and the insanely strange, since, once taken to the 0th degree, they fuse to radiate irresistible brilliance.

CD or MP3s via Resipiscent August 2008