12 tracks. Running time 73:55 Radio Silence was originally self-released by Between Interval – Stefan Jonsson – in 2004 as a limited edition and quickly sold out. This re-mastered version on the Spotted Peccary label gives more people to hear Stefan's musical vision of a dystopic future where technology has failed. This is more rhythmic than other Between Interval albums I've heard, but as always it's strong on dark atmosphere. A theme on some tracks is the use of white noise and crackles to embellish the main sounds to heighten the sense of a technological state of decay. Laying bare the imagined world “From a Silent Surface” opens the album with effects like sonic stonefalls on a synthetic lake while strange rustling and distorted non-human voices lurk just beyond the foreground. This builds up to a moody drum-esque rhythm and constantly passing air pads and refrains briefly rippling as if they're decayed sirens. The mood gets thoughtful in the next track “Wishful Thinking”. Voices, including brief operatic vocals, and music are heard intermittently over the white noise of a radio being tuned while pads reverb around the soundscape. A lovely rippling melody on some kind of plucked instrument sound then comes in to finally be joined by a laid back rhythm. It's listening to albums like this which remind me, as if I needed reminding, that ambient at it's best is music of the mind in that it conjures up images mental images. For me this is especially so on the final, yet all too brief, track “End Station” where a palette of differently metallic washes mark the end of a journey into what could be a semi-derelict station. It's easy to fall into the trap of expecting an artist to release something similar in style to previous albums. So I was surprised to find that on Radio Silence Stefan has added downtempo and even dub elements while retaining the shady and shadowy ambient elements.