Temple Inward - Glacier

The good: Glacier's "Temple Inward" speaks for itself. The production is immaculate, the mixing is immaculate the themeing is immaculate. It's a fantastically well-rounded project in every sense of the word. But the themeing tips it over the 90/100 edge, though, because time and time again, Glacier has shown his aptitude in melding jungle-esque sound design with his electronic production, and "Temple Inward" is arguably the best representation of that. The jungle themeing is apparent, always, in the sound design, from plucky instrumentation to airy leads, and it works spectacularly well with Glacier's crazy synthwork. This project does not lack themeing, or production quality — and nor does it lack emotion, particularly in the vocal-influenced "Hang Limb" and "Ubi". "Temple Inward" establishes its 'temple' aspect quite quickly, but it looks 'inward' too, and Glacier's own vocal lends quite heavily to that introspective aspect that allows the personality of the EP to shine through wholly.

The bad: Sitting in the 90/100 range, this section is obviously going to be rather hard to fill. Maybe I'd have liked to see a more solid storyline for this EP, but what we have here currently is still musical gold.