Later Days' Songs of the Watchmaker is a brilliant electronic work which sparkles and resonates with life and animation. Featuring digital sounds which burble and twitch, move and mutate, Songs of the Watchmaker is simultaneously cold and beautiful, spontaneous and mathematical, a collection of dialogues and songs of uninhibited artifical intelligences.

Like multi-colored mechanical insects, the sounds bounce and chatter and move in seemingly chaotic ways, blind, relying on fractal patterns of touch and meticulous searching movements designed to sense each and every limitation of their invisible stereo enclosures.

These are beautiful, animated sonic creatures that are crystalline, magnetic, purposeful, each having distinct mannerisms. High-pitched, delicately piercing ringing tones slide up and down the harmonic spectrum. Low drones pulsate in mutating tempos, grooving to their own internal rhythms. Wildly fluttering oscillator forms, move left and right amidst carefully applied synthetic filters. Staticky thin white noise weaves it's way through the narrowest bands in the frequency range.

Countless other "computer music" works, no matter how expertly done, fall flat with inhuman execution, alienating the listener with their digitized blurbs and blips which do not speak, do not connect, which are lacking a "voice". This is what sets Songs of the Watchmaker apart. Later Days is listening to all those ones and zeroes and making them resonate with life and effervescence, shaping purposeful gestures, speaking through distinctive and interesting synthetic characters in well-crafted sentences and compelling storylines.