Ice Station - Premium Portable Ice Maker for Home, Office & Outdoor Use - Fast & Quiet Ice Production for Drinks, Parties & Camping

Whomever wrote the product description for this album is a halfwit and never actually listened to the album, and was only going off an interview from the band where they discussed their inspiration for the album. It's much more than a soundtrack for a bleak landscape, it's the story of a man following a lost love through expanses of wasteland through Siberia and to China, where his love awaits him... The description mentions nothing of the amazing layered vocals, the subtle, chiming keyboards, rhythmic drums (acoustic and programmed) and the album's desperate but altogether optimistic feel... There's some proper leg stompers, some disco anthems, some western-influenced twang, tons of variety here... Crack Goes the Lake calls up Depeche Mode, there's a hint of early Pixies, some Surfer Blood (yeah, this came way before SB), lots of indie and electronic, but more than anything, this album has a sound I've never heard before, and I'm an avid indie / electro aficionado. The sound screams at you with beautiful distortion that's both scary and charming. The acoustic pieces make you melt. The melodies are varied and and the guitar harmonies creep up your back and sneak through your foramen magnum, eat at your core... It sounds oxymoron-ish, but this album is depressing at first, but the more you listen (for me it took 4 or so, now I'm up to the 30's) the more you find a driving energy of perseverance and determination in the face of extreme odds, and I find it inspiring...