Beautiful guitars: a must for any layered guitarwork fan. The playing is superb, featuring playing that runs the gamut from delicate and expressive to the loudest dynamic range of the instrument.The song, as opposed to the instrumentals, is a bit weak. It sees to me that Kaki was still developing her songcraft at this point, and I'm glad that she continued because, as her other albums have shown, it has only gotten stronger.All in all, this is the album that I continually return to in her catalog. It has continued to captivate me since my first listen, and it has become an album I return to for inspiration when recording my own music.A note on the engineering: the album is listenable, but I wish that the engineering had been better. I feel many of the the tracks would have benefited from better tracking, mixing, and mastering... I'm a bit picky when it comes to such talented players and would have liked to hear more of the detail Kaki is capable of in the final product.