Regarding FSOL and cohesiveness:
Neither "ISDN" nor "Dead Cities" have the cohesiveness of "Lifeforms".
One may find this aspect positive or negative.
I consider it negative, as I admired, as one of the most distinctive
talents of FSOL, the ability to create a cohesive and organic entity, where
radically different elements would seamlessly mutate and evolve, so subtly
that the listener hardly noticed the transformation - and then the shock
that what one is listening to is completely different from what was
experiencing minutes before, though the change had slipped by one's
conscious detection.
"ISDN" and "Dead Cities" focus on more of a traditional song format, which
sacrifices that organic cohesiveness to more readily distinguished
soundbytes.
Zenon M. Feszczak
Ambientologist