Already recognized as a critical success, it's creator, Dan Berridge has completed a beautiful and diverse collage of music styles, encompassing jazz, classical, beats, and psych rock. In a musical world either blissfully unaware or painfully cognizant of civilizations decay, Compassion is an expansive look at modern urban society's disparate, and desperate cultures.

1. Who's to Blame
2. Born Spirit
3. For the One
4. Femme Fatale
5. Life of a Refugee
6. Non-Resistance
7. Plants and Leaves
8. Sea of Change
9. Quiet Revolution
10. No Pain
11. January
12. Sea of Change Part 2
13. London Broken Heart
14. No Religion

Available on compact disc only.

"Vast Technicolor widescreen visions that leave me breathless...this guy seems to be able to press an assembly of joy, nightmare and pure relaxation into musical compositions that shoot him into pole position in the spaced race." - 4/5 Jockey Slut

"...an album suffused with feverish creativity and sympathy for the afflictions of others, from the stateless to the lovelorn. The desolation begins with the dusty vinyl crackle of 'Who's To Blame', and swings like a black mood through spaghetti-noir guitars, distant brass and, later, sirens. There are strings samples and pianos to light up the gloom, and, on songs like 'For The One' a soul sample or two to cling to. Mostly, though, it's a hallucinogenic jazz dub ache for the state of the world in which we are all utterly, utterly alone." - 8/10 NME

"Recalling the drugged out, party's over vibe of Nic Roeg's 'Performance' with its endless jump cuts, 'Compassion' melds late Sixties melodies, rippling piano, choral samples, fractured beats and snippets of half-remembered soundtracks into an exotic and sumptuous whole. Berridge taps from unlikely sources - 'Plants and Leaves' uses a plaintive riff from 'The Man Who Fell to Earth' - 'Compassion' never ceases to surprise. Moving from the lush, string-driven 'Sea of Change Part 2' to the lilting vocal harmonies of forthcoming single 'For the One', interspersed with some terrifyingly apt vocal samples, the album gives an insight into the dark heart of solitude. A strictly widescreen production, listening to 'Compassion' is a cathartic experience, like emerging from a black hole into blazing sunshine. Simply stunning." - 5/5 Muzik

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