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| CRANES first release in over four years, particles & waves, sees the band retaining their trademark sound. The U.S. and Canadian release includes a bonus live performance DVD of four tracks from particles & waves. This is the first-ever DVD release of any CRANES material.
Fluid, languid and spacey, particles & waves is the sound of someone drifting in and out of consciousness on a hot summer day. Ali Shaw's voice floats perfectly over electronic waves of noise and acoustic guitars. Jim Shaw sings on the country leaning "Every Town," while "Here Comes the Snow" lures you gently into its blissfully distorted center. "Avenue A" is more upbeat and focused, while "Light Song" ends the album sounding like something out of a David Lynch movie about lost travelers on the way to Mars.
On the album's elegant and simple cover, Ali Shaw notes, "When we were recording the album I was reading about fractals and chaos theory and vibrating waves and how the universe is made and all that stuff. The image that we have on the front cover of the album is called a Koch Snowflake. It's a geometric fractal, with a combination of triangles around the edge which makes the circumference infinite, even though the shape itself doesn't change size. I liked the idea of something being both infinite and finite at the same time!"
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