Claude says:Andy Othling's one-man project out of Albuquerque leans into soft electronics and darker melodies here, loosely themed around the solitary 52-hertz whale whose low-frequency call appears somewhere in the mix. You picked this up a year after release in early 2012 and lived with it hard for a few weeks, especially "Song For No One" and the title track. By fall you'd drifted away, but those first months it felt like the right kind of contemplative.