The theme/focus for this release is US Pop star, Actress & Model Lindsay Lohan, and instead of following his normal pattern of deconstructed or morphing the chosen subjects pop music. Strand has taken a series of synthesizer modelers, & used them to create a mainly shimmering ‘n’ stunning expanse of golden & psychedelic drone matter.

Opening up proceedings is  “Star Light Climmers, Dreams Wither Away”, and this twenty two minute track finds Strand creating a truly stunning & captivating HNW/drone crossbreed. The tracks built around a sustained golden ‘n’ hopeful harmonic loop, which Stand  reels out into this thick mass of shimmering & glittering  drone wonderfulness. The track feels akin to been enclosed in some vast, sparklingly & positive mass- with your mind & body twinkly, buzzing & drifting deeper & deeper into the almost heavenly mass of sound . I think it’s fair to say this track is one the most breath-taking & beautiful things I’ve ever heard Strand or anyone else create….so as an opener it’s great, but it does set the bar very high for the rest of the release.

Track number two is entitled “This Life Is Not What I Imagined It Would Be”, and this twenty five minute track starts out with Strand creating a slow moving & drifting haze of harmonic ‘n’ golden though slightly forlorn collection of drone textures. To me there’s an almost Angelo Badalamenti gone drone like feel to this track, as Strand has managed to create both a feeling of nostalgic beauty & graceful longing with undertones of great sadness. In it’s last quarter Strand slowly thins the whole thing to a more vacant & lost single tone drone sustain, which is slowly but surely fades out to nothingness. Once again this track is another very accomplished piece of work, and I really like the way he’s managed to capture a mixture of hopefulness, with a slowly raising feeling of regret- all of which perfectly fits this tracks title.

Finishing off the release we have the longest track here “Alcohol & Drugs”, and sadly this just over thirty minute track is my least favourite of the three tracks here. The track is basically a harmonically buzzed slice of juddering ‘n’ jittering walled noise, and it finds Stand churning up a perfectly acceptable  enough bit of HNW- it just rather pales in comparison to first two tracks & rather lacks the wonder, or mixed emotions of these tracks. But I guess it does work as an interest more brutal counterpart to the other tracks, and highlights Ms Lohan’s drug issues & inner demons.

There is little doubt that “Three Pieces For Lindsay” is a near perfect masterpiece, and some of the best work Strand has ever put his name to- it’s just a pity that the last track wasn’t quite up to up the caliber of the other two tracks. I would have liked to have given this a 4.5 mark, but as we don’t deal in half marks I’ve given it the full five…as it certainly a must have item, if you enjoy any form of dense & locked sound- be it drone, ambience or walled noise.