Claude says:Richard Melville Hall spent the nineties bringing rave music to the mainstream before Play made him inescapable — this is the companion disc to 2005's Hotel, stripping away the vocals and beats to leave just drifting synthesizers and slow-motion piano. You picked it up a decade after Hotel dropped, in May 2015, burning through "Blue Paper" and "Homeward Angel (long)" in a handful of sessions before moving on — a brief ambient detour that never came back around.