Now five years old, Mapstation's A Way to Find the Day still sounds the right mix of past and future. This balance feels fundamental, like it's been encoded more than simply layered or arranged. Tension-and-release is being played with here, but--to an unusual degree--it's both at the same time rather than an alternation between the two. The result feels like warmth and abstraction fighting to get out of a rigged laboratory trap, the irony being that conditions are ideal in there--escape would only be a disappointment...

Mapstation--I Don't Know My Generation
Mapstation--When You Collide
Mapstation--Midnight Gegenlicht


The whole album is recommended, aside from two trip-hop style vocal tracks.