A Circle of Skin is music to give solace during the dark autumn evenings. Creating images and patterns of comfort to deflect from the hallucinogenic disorientations of reality. As ever with these things, there are always demons and spirits lurking within the shadows of the album. Showing us with a sharpened realisation to be mindful, as things can always get worse. These are the murky undercurrents of a soundtrack which keeps us moving forward and alive. The sounds present are at once both organic and synthesised, improvised and yet organised, soothing and unsettling, dark yet uplifting, cosmic and spaced but at the same time grounded and earthy.........sometimes, contradictions are good.