"Nocturnal Transmission" opens this skillfully made album with an invocation and the climactic "Blue Skies (with Tori Amos)" brings it to a close. The songs in between have motifs from nature (rushing water, singing cicadias) that make this music stay with you, or, at least, me. 1996

Samples from NASA, Flash Gordon, and Dr. Strangelove liven this willfully sporofic marathon album of electronica, making oddly peaceful background music. 1991

As soon as I heard the announcer intone "Turn on the blender. The electric can opener," at the beginning of the song "Stress in Marriage," I knew I had found the album for me. The song "Time Zones" contains an announcement about a leap second, the text of which you can read here. 1987