NICOLAY & THE HOT AT NIGHTS - Glaciers (Sealed) (CD)

The first time I listened to Glaciers my computer followed up the last song with a Nicolette track from 1992, A Single Ring, a dance track built off of a sample from a 1987 Madhouse song, Seven (itself a pseudonymous Prince side project). It is easy to interpret the coincidence as a philosophical wink from the music gods, since listening to Glaciers is as close as most of us will ever get to digging through the record collections of its players. Glaciers features a dizzying array of original ideas smartly weaving a wide swath of profound influences throughout.