Opener 'Neustrelitz' already marks a subtle departure from the strictly reduced soundscape of Eskimo*'s debut: mature, more refined, hauntingly atmospheric, it's an epic hommage to the legendary 'fusion festival': a clandestine global techno gathering hidden away behind a deserted soviet airbase. Trembling with anticipation its hypnotically slow build-up stretches over nine minutes during which soft pads give way to looming strings while a driving synth bassline serves as motor and recreates the increasing tension during each traveller's journey, as one passes through the eponymous small town symbolizing the last stronghold of civilization before - finally - arriving at the pearly gates to said otherworldly neverland.

'Lavender', Eskimo*'s most pop-infused production to date, portrays the ensuing blissed-out state of open-air grace: In a place where time stops and all lines between the dancing individuals become blurred, minds and bodies start to spiral into a featherlike whirl of pure raving joy finally culminating in a meltdown-moment beyond imagination, as the entire floor gets flooded with glittering particles of a husky voice delivering deliciously breathy, love-struck confessions of ecstatic happiness to the crowd.

Though still covered in glistening after-glow sensations, the calm, peaceful serenity of the following comedown is fluidly cast into the ep's closing track 'Stralsund': a 'slomo-house'-inspired slow jam covering the last sunbeams spilled over waves gently splashing and washing ashore, thereby ending the ep on a slightly more somber sunset note, with a lingering velvet vocal bidding farewell before gradually fading into the dusk, as - alas - summer's end draws near, soon leaving behind nothing but melancholy memories.