There's been a flurry of activity lately around the duo The Angelic Process, with last year's acclaimed Coma Waering CD on the UK label Paradigms turning alot of people on to the dense, crushing metalbliss that Kris Angylus has been creating since the early part of the decade. Then there's the new album Weighing Souls With Sand which just came out on Profound Lore not too long ago and which earned them a spot as our featured new release when it came out...that disc has been garnering all kinds of great reviews, deserved it too, as it saw Angylus and MDragynfly delivering their most focused and powerful music yet, a massive wall of gorgeous synthesizers, howling melodic vocals, saturated distortion, and utterly heavenly feedback scorched through by pummeling tribal rhythms and brutal, percussive metallic riffing a la Godflesh and Neurosis. Absolutely amazing stuff at the crest of the current wave of evocative, melodic dream-metal, right up there with their peers in Nadja, Goslings, and Jesu. With all of the increased interest in The Angelic Process, Kris has saw fit to issue short-run, CD-R releases of assorted older TAP recordings through the band's own Decaying Sun imprint; alot of this material dates back several years, as the project has been recording and releasing material since 2001. The previously unreleased 2004 EP Sigh is one such CD-R, a 4-track, 23-minute disc in a slimline case with a full color insert sheet, featuring four exclusive tracks: "Sigh", "Trance To The Sun", "Mouvement � With Mouthfulls Of Blood", and "The Black Ark", all a continuation of the band's wall-of-fuzz dronemetal with the addition of sampled cello and drum programming further fleshing out their sound. Recommended.