Album Notes

one of scythe's two masterminds going solo; if there's a middle between marillion and bjork, between radiohead and sting, between pink floyd and genesis, t has found it. "naive" features songs of stunnigly overwhelming emotions that nonetheless derive their structure from the means of progressive rock. though atmosphere and melody are our magic words here, we do encounter weird rhythms, adventurous harmonies, daring melodies... a perfect synthesis of dreaming and thinking in an avantgarde sound texture. find evidence for this in a roughmixed demo version of "she is dead" here. (www.mp3.com/scythe)

t performed all instruments and voices by himself apart from having arranged and produced the whole material. the result of this is an uncompromising density of ideas and this strange huddled intimacy we are only rarely allowed to experience in today's music. "'naive' is the most personal music i have ever made", t told us, "there are quite a few lines that i thought i could neither say nor sing because of a huge lump in my throat. the whole album is an unfiltered stream of music and lyrics from an area from within myself i seem to have missed before recording 'naive'." welcome to naiveland, then, if you like us treasure the courageousness of true emotion in music.