From my review at Thinking The Sounds:

"One of my favorite ambient artists of recent years is Altus (the alter ego of one Mike Carss). He has been putting out some amazingly arranged and produced ambient music–all of it free–for several years now.

Rapid Eye Movements is somewhat darker than many of his releases, but to my hearing it still has a very warm and inviting core. If it is an invitation to sleep and to dream, it contains in it the possibility of confronting the darkness of the psyche, of wandering down unknown pathways. But at the same time,…

Well, I have begun my annual descent into the world of Christmas music madness.

For years I had a hard and fast rule that NO Christmas music of any kind was to be played before Thanksgiving. I was known to be a bit of a jerk about it as a matter of fact.

However, in the past several years, since I have been the principle force behind FaLaLaLaLa, I need to start early to keep up with the ravenous Christmas music fans that begin flocking to the site around this time of year. I also need to prepare albums and…

This is a really great album. It's got lots of atmosphere…sort of trip-hoppy in places. But it's also quite simple and stripped down in ways. It's certainly not as jagged as his Furs material, but you can't hear that voice and not be reminded of the swagger. It's generally a fairly mellow and even maudlin album, but with so much warmth.

The Colour of Spring

This album has long been one of my favorites since its original release. And I have to admit that I like it even more after all the years (over 20 of them now!).

I've been listening to parts of it every day for the past several weeks (including a few of the remixes from Asides Besides).

This is just a masterpiece of pop music, pure and simple. It builds on the New Wave sounds that they developed from The Party's Over to It's My Life. But it still retained the pop song structure that would…

Wow! I was surprised in looking at my stats that Enoch Light placed so high. But, then again, not. Since several websites are celebrating the centennary of his birth with albums to download, I have been listening to quite a lot of his work.