Although this is by no means their first album, I'd never heard of BLUE CONTROL before this arrived, so I can't compare it to the music they made in New York. They are now based in Coopersburg in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley whose tangents this album explores with ambient piano-based jazzy background music to some back porch dinner party.
The piano gets repetitive in places but reels you in and I could hear much of this music being used as music on TV wildlife shows as some buff guy tries to show you the wildlife of the Lehigh valley only much of it isn't wild. The Iron Pigs finding the odd sighting of wild boar and the fearless hunter trying to get that photo as the piano repeats again and again as they close in on the perfect shot.
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The dreamy soundscape of Opium Den/Fade to Blue is much more a 'sitting in the forest bird watching and ageing the trees' kind of piece that is further developed on Walking Robin and Open Air where the titles pretty much give away what you'd be looking at with this playing in the background.
This album is perfect for driving in the country or looking out the window on a train. What it isn't, despite what the band's name might suggest, is bluesy.
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