"Stephen
Millard is a Californian experimental music artist who likes
his music dark! The CD features 6 dark mood tracks, the first
called "In Nothing Loss". It is a dark droning track
with a female voice way way down in the subway tunnel, as it
sounds. Lovely Cracked Vase is also very dark but the beginning
has a feel of less heavy weight or burden on the listener as
it floats over the stereo. Sometimes it is difficult to figure
out the instrumentation used. These first two tracks you could
have done all with guitars but I am guessing some synthesizers
are used as well...Peeling Skin is back to a more eerie drone
and mysterious feeling tone. This track is very much akin to
the opening number. Through Suffocation is next and is the first
track to have an actual repetitive beat in the background as
the dark electronics are layered on the top. Quite cool. Awake
from Nothing closes the CD with another atmospheric drone. Don't
listen to this music late at night alone in dark places. It could
be dangerous to your psyche!"
-Scott Heller, From Aural
Innovations #24 (July 2003)