Headphone Test is a heavily dub influenced, 11-track sound experience that steps through deep echoes, psychedelic electronics, slow motion beats, and sweeping synths. Acoustic guitar strums its way through many of the tracks, laying down a range of unexpected nuances of mood from psychedelic rock and blues to one track that sounds a little like country-in-dub.

1. Grape Meringue
2. Dive
3. Signal Fire Out
4. One Drop
5. Bassic
6. Evolver
7. Magenta Sky Over Detroit
8. Toad Worship
9. The Lost King
10. Slow Element
11. Sunshine In My Mind (meringue mix)

Canartic's sound is unquestionably made for those times when you're doing nothing at all. In fact, I can't imagine listening to this album when doing anything more strenuous than reclining in a big comfy chair, or laying flat out on a pillowy bed. The vast, spatial sound of Canartic moves freely within its own crystalline world and endless caverns of spacey synths, mellow beats and echoed vocal samples. While the guitar most often compliments the dusky, psy-dub vibe, it has the occasional tendency to riff your mind out of its tranquility.

If experiments in trippy, ambient, guitar-infected, dub-influenced electronics are your plate, grab your headphones and take a ride.

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