Wow. On all three counts. Western Skies Motel is enchanting... I hear the wide open skies, the gently waving wheat and corn in the wind... the purple mountains in the background. It's amazing! Animals As Leaders scratches a prog itch I've had my whole life, but I am really hung up on the mastering of the tracks. They are so heavily compressed that everything seems to happen in this super narrow audio band just above flat. There's no dynamic range, and it keeps distracting me from their masterful playing! So I can appreciate what they do, but I need to hear more tracks, mastered differently. (And, as a bass player myself, I gotta say I am riveted by that drummer! So tight!) And Nonkeen? Amazing. Great story, too. But that's the kind of music I could listen to while writing... slowly developing patterns morphing over time with interested textural details... REALLY eye-opening post. THANK YOU!