Album Notes

2011 re-release of the 2002 debut album from Anomalous Disturbances (aka Terrence (Terry) O'Brien).



It sounds like night. That's what comes to mind upon listening to The Spirit Molecule by Anomalous Disturbances. On his debut release, Terry O'Brien (aka Anomalous Disturbances) has put together an album of truly ambient music that seems to "seep" into the listening area; insidiously hissing and droning up through cracks in the floor and eventually engulfing us in varying shades of blue, grey, purple and black. The icey tones drift, merge and separate as moods freeze, crystalize and melt. The design of the album leads us throughout a seemingly random course - over atmospheric iceflows, desolate alien landscapes and airless empty deserts.

- Chuck van Zyl - STAR'S END RADIO - review of The Spirit Molecule
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Luxurious tonalities unfurl, filling the sky with delicate electronics that softly vibrate and pulsate with soothing intentions. Electronics share the stage with sampled vocal snippets. The music is sedate and passive, crafted to be an unobtrusive background that enhances inward contemplation. Textures swim into interlocking position, overlapping to form a graceful soundscape of ultimate relaxation. Softly shrill tones blend into sonorous passages, achieving a homogeny of balance that creates a pool of even sonic temperament.

Matt Howarth of Sonic Curiosity - review of The Spirit Molecule -
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Even before listening, the little garden-elves on the cover and the whimsical titles track titles point toward something even more unusual-than-usual... Two-minute opener New World Odor hovers in shimmering synth layers which seep into the more-corroded atmospheres of K.I.; stuttering and hovering with buried spoken samples, the synth-dominated track takes a weird, spacey voyage into some dark subworld. After the liltingly easternish femme-vocal chants and drones of Blue Honey, it's off to Disneyland of the Gods (12:09) where wavering lows seem to encircle your ears as if a gigantic bee is hovering; other sheens of unknown radiation slip through these eclectic areas, just ruffling around in big, gray cloudboiling gusts accented by distant twinkles.

David J. Opdyke - The Ambientrance - review of The Spirit Molecule
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Anomalous Disturbances came to my attention when I saw him perform at the Sugar Bowl a few months ago. This is electric guitars and textures heaped with effects and looped to create almost symphonic soundscapes of almost startling variety with an absolutely remarkable chill-out factor. It's absolutely beautiful, almost meditatively relaxing, and highly recommended.

Reid at Tartarus dot ca/news/ - review of The Spirit Molecule
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