Harold Budd and Clive Wright's second collaborative album, Candylion, is out now. Their first album, last year's A Song for Lost Blossoms, was pretty solidly ambient, with Wright playing Fripp to Budd's Eno, if you know what I mean. This time, Wright does a bit more conventional guitar playing, and some tracks actually have light percussion, leaving ambient territory and approaching Angelo Badalamenti's quieter and more atmospheric Twin Peaks music. It may occasionally threaten to dissipate into sickly pretty new age music, but, several tracks in, it hasn't crossed that line yet.
