Route Canal Diary
08/14/2000
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Sparling's work on Route Canal Diary is a dark and concerned sounding album of ambient musings from darker places. Even happier bits and pieces get swallowed by the moody drone of Sparlings experimental soup. But it is not to be confused with gothic humms of ambient noise or the beat beat beat of high energy pop. His work stands quite on its own, only borrowing musical genes from Eno and Jarre to fill in the DNA of organic tones this CD is chock full of. Numerous listenings will let this album grow on you, and then you'll never put it away."