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01. Red Scatter
02. Ice in the Sleeve
03. Stone's Eggs
04. Blood is Climbing
05. Rain in Our Room
06. How Safe is Deep?
07. Underground Kite
08. Her 200 Bones

Sculpted and produced by Russell Mills with Tom Smyth & Will Joss

Musicians

Michael Brook
Brian Eno
Bill Laswell
Declan Colgan
Roger Eno
Kevin Shields
Hywel Davies
Robin Guthrie
David Sylvian
Edge

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RUSSELL MILLS/UNDARK, Strange Familiar (Instinct) You may not have heard Russell Mills' work before, but chances are you've seen it. He created the paintings on the cover of Nine Inch Nails' The Downward Spiral as well as devising record covers for Brian Eno, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Bill Laswell, among others. Many of Mills' design clients are also his musical collaborators, though his forays into writing and recording have been few and far between. So fans of inventive ambient and electronic music will rejoice at the release of two Mills albums in the span of a few months, both recorded with Undark, his revolving cast of all-star contributors. Mills manipulates found sounds, field recordings, and specially created instrumental samples into rich, dramatic soundscapes. Pearl/Umbra, released in January, included a laundry list of collaborators; its follow-up, Strange Familiar, pares it down to 10. Among that number are no less than four distinctive guitarists-Michael Brook, My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields, U2's the Edge, and the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie-yet they provide one small part of the atmospheric whole. Sculpting with sound, Mills evokes murky, wordless melodrama one moment and something approaching gothic pop (with help from David Sylvian's mournful vocals) the next. The eight tracks on Strange Familiar avoid ambient's more bloodless New Age tendencies, opting instead for the eerie pull of what Mills describes as "ghost cellos" and "select-a-bonk rhythm," not to mention misty blues shouts ("Rain in Our Room"). The title of the album-and of songs like "Stone's Eggs" (a shimmering, John McEntire-esque number) and "Blood Is Climbing" (a spacey, surging drone)- suggest the tensions at play. Mills seems to carry his tape player to unusual places, emerging with something warm and comfortable yet oddly foreign and new, as if he's serving you a cup of tea in the middle of a lunar landing. Here's hoping he doesn't wait another four years before unleashing more strange, familiar music.-Jackie McCarthy