Everlovely Lightningheart's Cusp is a stunning work of lilting drone/folk and psychic amplifier power and evocative improv from this LA based performace/installation/music collective. Consisting of one 45 minute track, this starts out as a beautiful piano ballad that decays into subtly shifting scenes that will fully possess you. A feedbacking metallic power drone falls away, revealing a crushingly beautiful strummed free-folk melody. Free-floating electronic shimmer explodes into chaotic, tribal percussion jams. Heart rending Rhodes piano lines are situated against ghostly chamber string, chimes, and grey washes of rainy day drones. Very, very beautiful. We were completely sucked into this landscape of delicate sound narrative, drawing out dreamlike sonics from dust, leaves, blood, photo chemicals, rust, various metal objects, a tunnel, a barn, a monastery, a booby trap, various moldy basements, water, explosives, tarot cards, an iron bison, the Los Angeles basin, the Mojave desert, a cat, a deer, potassium cyanide, mass confusion, a friendship, and a piano on fire in the middle of the street. It's like a journey through early morning urban landscapes accompanied by a particularly melancholy Sunburned Hand of the Man (or Shalabi Effect at their quietest) with incandescent peals of amplifier feedback streaking across the sky. Presented in a striking gatefold sleeve with animal collage artwork, and is accompanied by a hand-sewn booklet. Highly recommended.