For the most part the songs are downtempo and patient.
▶ Brambles - In The Androgynous Dark - YouTube Wednesday, January 15, 2014 @ 12:20pm
This is undeniably a night-time album, it has that still, peaceful quality to it, the same you get when you walk down a deserted street at night. And despite the slow pace, the music rarely seems melancholic - there's a sense of contentedness which pervades the album from beginning to end. Mark seems very at ease with life and there's a similar spirit to the music. It is deep, thoughtful and optimistic - in the words of Donal Whelan (who mastered the final album), "it's like being wrapped up in a warm blanket".
There is a slow Jazz vibe to In The Androgynous Dark, which has a feeling of reflection, of what might have been. It's a quiet and mournful trio of drums, piano and woodwinds (with some electronic atmospherics).
