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Released in 2003, this was a painful 3 year project produced against the backdrop of losing a record deal and an obsessive desire to reinvent pop music.  The end product was a flawed masterpiece, beset by over-ambition, compromise and lost confidence.  And yet it remains The Oobs' deepest work of art, peering back from deep within the human soul.

Best listened to in silence, late at night in a candlelit room.  Every note, every second of gap between songs was obsessed over to create a fluid enveloping experience, a journey from hope to self-destruction to a final fragile peace.

Let the magic begin!  Price of entrance, your mind.

"Gets better and better every time you play it, buy definitely"
(Sunday Telegraph London)

"The production is phenomenal, washes over in wave after wave of aural bliss"
(Stephen Street, producer of The Kaiser Chiefs, The Smiths, Blur, Cranberries)

“Combining conventional song structures with orchestral interludes, their newly lush sound here twinkles like The Flaming Lips with The Boo Radley's quirky pop nous.”
(Q Magazine)

“There's no denying the dazzling vision of "Open the Hatch" (an astronaut's fruitless search for God) or the cinematic perfection of "Where Did I Go Wrong?" Sophia Churney's voice - like Lavender permeating through woodsmoke - is a joy throughout.”
(Uncut Magazine)

"Melodic, moving album about the death of childlike innocence.  Wonderful."
(Rolling Stone Magazine)

Other press comments about the album:

"magic and surreal", "toweringly dramatic", "possibly the best musical achievement of the decade", "tear-stained emotion, imagination, magic and mystery", "the most exciting thing to happen to British music in far too long", "bottomless beauty", "otherworldy beauty, depth and originality.  Part Russian fairytale, part medieval sorcery", "deeply moving, should be treasured", "quietly gorgeous", "One of the most inspired albums of all time", "Doubtless its universe of beguiling melancholia

 will end up criminally ignored".