Timeless I listened to the 2 CD version first, and then I made a playlist of the 8 track single CD version for repeat listens. It’s a perfect album for working to, if you need to focus. It is long though, whichever version you listen to, but despite an inevitable similarity across the tracks I didn’t find it boring at all, or inert in the way the MJ Cole album was. The synths, keyboards and occasional guitars give it a great brooding atmosphere, with elements of ambient, and the vocals by Dianne Charlemagne have a lovely soulfulness, a little Soul II Soul, a little Massive Attack. The title track is great, the ‘Inner City Life, Inner City Pressure’ hook and the flutes are excellent. and Sea Of Tears is great. But it's the overall mood and feel I liked, for an album based around a specific rhythmic pattern and with very little vocalism and lyrics I did find it very expressive, little bit of anger, little bits of sadness, little bits of beauty. It's on the cusp of 3 and 4 - I'll definitely listen again when I need to focus or am in the mood but does that make it a 4? The length is definitely an issue, but it is a very good album nonetheless. Think it just edges a 4 ⌛⌛⌛⌛ Playlist submission: Sea of Tears