Music 
Tycho, ambient electronica's knight in silvery astronaut suit, has graced our plebian ears with yet another layercake of sound. "Coastal Brake" is a series of spacy bleep solos sewn together by a deep sine wave base and a fast-fluttering distorted guitar. It morphs across its hefty five and a half minutes even more than most Tycho songs, and dies a beautiful death as a malfunctioning Fisher Price phone set heard through a bug zapper. Because of its unfocused evolution, it's less immediately brain grabbing than what we expect from Tycho, but its subtlety doesn't take away from its immense depth. 10 points, Scott Hansen.
PREVIEW:
"Fervent"
"New Dawn Fades (Joy Division cover)"
At the very least, this is highly original music. Starting right off the bat with a melody made of vocal exercises and throat singing, Colouring of Pigeons gains some random kitchen implement instrumentation before being elevated to a truly epic operatic number. Which is fitting, because the album this song comes from, Tomorrow, In a Year, is in fact an opera, one based on Charles Darwin. (I know, strangely unsurprising after that track.) Hit the jump for the full sized artwork.
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