This collection of music is an exercise in relief. These are songs as sighs, music bathed and dappled in the forgiving light of a painless morning-after. Pulse regular, sanity intact, mind shedding the last lingering shadows of all the treachery and temptation harboured by nighttime.
These songs trace lines through ambience, trance, bedroom pop, and indefinable swathes of uncharted musical territory — but each track shares a glowing optimism, the first faint beams of dawn scything through dark. This compilation is a celebration of respite and recovery, a safe haven to shelter from the storm. Rest up: it’s ‘The Bliss of a Soft Comedown’.