![[c.jpg]] **Wandering Eye** - January 30th, 2017 https://ando.bandcamp.com/album/collector-2 The vinyl contains an unlisted bonus track at the end called "Movie Night." *Ando Laj’s international vinyl debut, 'COLLECTOR' presents us with a succinct selection of some of the artist’s most compelling early work, serving as an almost subconscious introduction.* *The record opens feverishly and glides through hazes of inhuman speech, swollen ambiance, and subdued melodies. Motifs are swapped subtly across tracks, with the use of indecipherable voices being a heavy recurrence, giving the sensation of receiving some form of instruction or message from unknown souls. At times, synth leads take powerful prominence with the unsettling warmth of a microwave oven, the tracks shifting from strange heavy beats to almost unnoticeable percussion. The album’s compositions of pure melody serve as its manifestos of softness and unattainable serenity.*