Baring Chests and Emotions in an Eruption of Energy

"Mr. Byrne's score, which includes the sound effects he calls ambient sound, offers a strong pulse, and its vocal fragments seem to lure the listener into a wind tunnel. It serves its purpose."

REVIEW: In Spite of Wishing and Wanting

"While there are pronounced global influences apparent here, In Spite sounds less like the work of a man with lots of imported records and frequent-flyer miles and more like something spewed from the senses-working-overtime mind of an art-school refugee."