Track Listing

1. It's Not Even Midnight
2. Mare Nostrum
3. Language Explosion
4. Litnum
5. World Is Inside You Now
6. Open Sources
7. Trailing
8. Little Damaged
9. Sitting in a Room
10. For, From
11. This Morning

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #458999 in Music
• Released on: 2007-11-06
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
San Francisco based musician Tim Arndt brings his Near the Parenthesis project to n5MD with the release of his second album "Of Soft Construction." This sophomore effort finds Arndt luring his potent song writing capabilities to the forefront yielding something truly exceptional. Spiraling piano sonnets are juxtaposed against sweeping cascades of grainy synthwashes and agile, yet carefully executed, beat-work. Add in an occasional mid radio station listen-in on a seemingly unfinished conversation and you have an idea of "Of Soft Construction's" perfected audible DNA. Near the Parenthesis has proven that he is yet another artist to capture the n5MD ethos in its truest most honest form.

Customer Reviews

Headphone Commute Review
This carefully produced instrumental electronic album, accompanied by detailed beats and perfectly measured bass, with sweeps of transforming pads, cycling dynamics of piano, and occasional field recordings of distant voices, deliver all jonesing aspects of Electronica (is that still a genre?), placing Tim Arndt, along the likes of Gridlock, Helios, Yasume, and Seven Ark. This San Francisco artist skillfully applies the formula that can never get too old for me. Just when I thought the world was drifting away from the overused elements, an album like this falls in my lap and stirs up all the good memories.