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You're fully entitled to your thoughts Peter, as we all are.

I'm not keen on it from what I've heard so far - nothing beyond the album cover to grab my attention or imagination.

I think (or hope) it'll be one of those albums that you need to hear as a whole before any possible judgement can be made. I'm sure it'll make sense in its entirety.

I wasn't bothered about Translucence + Drift Music when I first got it; I was quite disappointed. Than one day it grabbed me by the bollards and swung me round! It was only then I realised what a beautiful album it really is.

Despite being instrumental, it is starting to feel like this could be the album that John has been working towards since he first started writing about his fixation with cities.

He's clearly been saving the cover artwork for it! Maybe Urban Motets was a "false start".

But yes, I'm also really excited about this one...

Interesting thought. But perhaps its because it's instrumental?

John's lyrics are great of course, but they do 'define' our interpretation of the songs and (to an extent) lead us in a particular direction. This kind of music is more like an imagined map - there is no predetermined route through it or conclusion to draw - our understanding of it is given the freedom to find itself...

...well, having just listened to Imperfect Hymn its a triple 'ooh' from me for this track

I've listened to all three edits & they are all superb pieces of music. I prefer this side of John's music to the electronic stuff with Louis.

Spiritual, emotive, deeply moving and gorgeous.

and for the listener to be happily lost within it.

Let's hope so! Actually, I tend to religiously steer away from hearing previews of things. I doubt I will hear anything of MLC or ASL until one or both CDs is in my hands. It is just my way ...

Imperfect Hymn? Well it sure whoops the asses of those dirges we used to be forced to sing in morning assemblies.

If this is representative of the quality of the Lost City it seems the streets are paved with gold.

Gosh!

I do like both of the Lost City tracks.

I'll agree with that, but go one step further and say that recently I've come to like ALL of John's work as a whole, rather more than I like any single piece or side of it. I feel I'm begining to grasp the Gestalt psychology of it now.
Everything he records seems to come from one central idea, a vastly different manifestation of the same fundamental vision. Each subsequent release (including the emergent artwork/writing) adds something to my understanding of the whole, and explores the relationship between all the parts.

Inspirational.

I think I first really began to 'see' this when I heard Metanym on Cathedral Oceans III, which is exactly that - a piece of music that encompasses everything that has gone before it, and captures the essence of what it all means.
Just played it again now, and it works so perfectly.

These two new albums really define something for me - and I've only heard the samples!!!