I heard about ten seconds each of three different tracks and five minutes later had ordered all three CDs in the series. Only the first volume has arrived so far, but it’s been in my CD player exclusively since.

Holy crap is this every good. My initial reaction was, "I can pretty much give up trying to make my own music now. It’s all been done."

The closest things I’ve heard are Robert Rich’s electro-acoustic ambient and formal percussion ensemble music like Nexus. The former because of the instrumentation, the latter because of their razor-sharp technique and non-standard rhythms.

OK, I’m making this sound like academic mood ring music. Sorry. Let me be perfectly clear what this is. These guys got groove. These guys got darkness in ‘em. These guys got ‘lectric guitars, space bass and toy pianos. And then there’s the drums. Holy mother of a Chubby Chicken gut, they got drums. They got steel, they got kit, they got hang, they got it all. And every note has been set in its place by two guys in tuxes with white gloves. They ain’t no auto-quantification going on here. A little sticker on the cover quotes an Uncut review: "Sound[s] like the modern jazz quartet of the 24th Century". I wouldn’t go that far – to say it sounds like something that couldn’t have been created today. But seriously, in three hundred years, you could certainly play this to a house and get a standing ovation.