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TRANSIENT MESSAGES is the second official full length album from the New York City based electronic act Phenotract. Expanding on the groundwork of the previous album, "Within A Second", the harder tech sound that dominated that album is taken in a different direction. Still atmospheric and driving, and at the same time pensive and introspective, "Transient Messages" cascades and swirls with soundtrack- type melodies, groove- laden basslines, and both male and female vocals; all of which give the music a comtemporary electronica "neo- pop" sound. With the addition of a female vocalist, Niabi Caldwell, (who sings on about half of the songs) Phenotract has now fully illuminated the musical path that was only hinted at before. Running across the contrasts of lights and darks, tracks such as "A Million Colors" and "Dissolved In Tides" launch themselves into the heavens, whereas songs like "Heightened" and "In Another Life" take things more into the subterranean world that has historically characterized Phenotract's sound. Thematically, a lot of the album deals with communication and how often we find a common thread that exists in the world amongst us : that it lacks within ourselves and towards each other. Danceable, energetic music with lots of atmosphere and mood.