Reviewed by Tony Cummings

Music from the famed Glasgow alternative worship pioneers for their 'Quiet Service' this more or less goes under an 'ambient' bag but anyone with preconceptions of melody-less computer doodlings will be relieved to hear "Visions Of Heaven" with a ricocheting light dance groove while the LLS collective are to be congratulated both for the musical diversity - from mediæval atonal to beanbag lounging chillouts to Celtic harmonies - and the fact that on a 70-odd minute project boredom never settles. Instead some artful blends of ancient (sometimes very ancient) and modern keep the interest up. Only when, after 50 minutes or so, we get to some dark and somber cello tone poems does the whole thing veer towards inaccessibility. It perks up again for a pleasant lengthy piece of tinkling ambient "Lament" and an even longer might make best use of this album in meditations of the Lord yourself. As it says in Charlie Irvine's haunting acappella setting of Psalm 1, "It will go right with you if you take delight in the wisdom that God has taught."

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