The sense of calm humor noted in the overall title appears elsewhere in the collection – "Empty Gazing" could just as easily be a critique of the kind of blissed out reaction such music can cause as it is a celebration of it.

Strict repetition is difficult to pull off, and Dunn wisely spends his time making sure the tracks are constantly developing, positioning sounds against each other, and manipulating textures over time.Peter Van Cooten heavily praised the album – expressing an emotionality that separated it largely from other guitar and drone based musics.

Though still in his early twenties, composer Kyle Bobby Dunn definitely masters the genre.Tobias Fischer of Tokafi Magazine relished the album with compliments and praise: Included are short, mysterious and seemingly pitched-down piano sketches.

Deep listening results in the loss of self – and while it is a fascinating pastime to contemplate the way Dunn's music is produced (whether with a guitar, feedback loops, digital manipulations or string ensemble) time is much better spent absorbing the slowly breathing dronescapes and examining the interior condition his pieces evoke.Indie rock webzine, Tome to the Weather Machine, also rated the album highly, reviewing: Discernible instruments are definitely here—bright trumpets, mellow horns, organs, pianos, strings... but largely they are not.

He watches them grow up and mature with a tactful eye, sculpting each individual sound in such a way that lofty potentials are fulfilled in gloriously glacial monuments that reach high and rumble deep below.

Layering and intricate details are subtle and gentle—so much so that they're hardly noticeable—but the big picture is stunning: tones overlap to the point where he’s creating and orchestrating something as natural as an outdoor day, but it's all synthesized in the concert hall, on a stage and in a room that is deep, wide and cavernous.What results is something like a chamber-music equivalent of Kirlian photography: dark, shadowy and indistinct at its core, surrounded by an iridescent glow.