Waldeck's year old "This Isn't Maybe" EP was a brief precursor to this latest full-length and signaled an ambitious new path, previously explored, this time fully discovered, "The Night Garden" embraces the soothing soundscapes typical of Waldeck's audio fantasy while placing an ambitious new twist, developing a heightened sense of awareness within the Triphop/Trance/Techno-Erotica realm. The beats, soft and subtle, in one moment's pause, the other stirring and strident, pulsing and remarkably prevalent as ever, the atmosphere carrying the mood on this seasonal of extremes, at times gently soulful, others a struggle for transcendence, a dimly lit clearing with no clear path, only timeless passages, astral pockets skillfully employed, the listener left to discover the route to enlightenment.

Again teamed with the Gothic tranquility of Joy Malcolm's soft, yet present vocals, as well Brian Amos, each veterans of this spectral scene, adding the counterbalance, notably on the songs where the edge remains jagged -- brilliantly portrayed particularly on their Bowie reworking of "Cat People Dub," and Amos taking the role of Bowie himself, and the climbing beats, industrialized, an inclimate mixing of original with modernity for the full effect of perfection; A terrific highlight among many on this spirited journey through serenity, shadows and starry nights.