The contrast of a self-released cassette and an Opera House concert sets the parameters for what can be heard in this album. While The Misses and The Masses bares a bit of similarity to The UV Race (via maybe Tronics or Thomas Leer) and Forever New could almost slip into a Lower Plenty record (with a bit of Nikki Sudden in there), this record is a different terrain for most Al Monty listeners. There’s aspects that echo the friendlier side of the Post-Minimalist, learned composer-y types actively working towards “New Music”. Situate this next to the happy accidents of D-I-Y, the fruitful results of amateur enthusiasm and creative liberation that occurred in the wake of Punk™. Free jazz, British folk, Eastern music... it’s all open slather here, manifesting in less of an a-meets-b than blurred manifestation that occurs from living inside of music.