Hello fellow renoisers,
finally, here comes my review of mr_mark_dollins new album. I have to apologize, it took a long time to write it, because there were a lot of other things that wanted to be written 
Here we go: mr_mark_dollins new album “3 Smargaid Maerd” comes as a shiny download of 14 tracks with nice online-foto-booklet. I loaded it into my favourit playback application, started the first song (loopzilla), and had a look at the booklet.
“loopzilla” starts nice, warm and slow, in connection with the first page of the booklet I had a feelling of coming home late, from a big and loud party. You sit in your car, just turned off the engine. Everything is calm, your ears are still ringing, you start to relax.
The feeling continues in “happy pain”, sometimes you can hear the guitars again and your heart starts to beat faster, as you recognize the tunes.
“burning dog transmission” has a more (subliminal) agressive vibe, perhaps the first signs of lack of sleep?
“levitating night journey” and “no real summer” turned out to be the perfect soundtrack for my morning last tuesday. I sat at Hamburgs Binnenalster (see photo below) with the biggest and hottest coffee I could get. It was cloudy and really stormy, but warm. Trees shook their branches in the wind. Small waves were running over the water, just like these suits and young professionals hurrying from one side of the city to the other. I layed back and enjoyed the show. Great moment, perfect soundtrack!
“three billion cicades” is more noisy and buzzing, but has some nice guitar in it. It also has a touch of western/desperado to it. Found its way into my music-for-roleplaying-list 
“trans-meterological haircut” is still athmospheric, but starts to wake you up for the second half of the album. “sub conscious” tells you from the fairy-highlands through a waterfall, sometimes you can’t distinguish the guitar from a flute.
At this point of the album, I have been in need for speed and a bit more funkyness. But “while you were in the shower” and “spacestream” are still slow and atmospheric. Are these songs tales from a relationship? Is this, why “we need to talk”? I don’t know. Track eleven sounds melancholic but hopefull and has a uplifting beat. There is also a growling buzz in it. And it has a kind of abrupt ending. Room for interpretation?
The last three tracks then totally sastisfied my hunger for funkyness. “lost in the mist” has a 80’s easy listening guitar, guttural bass and flanging-pop-beats. Perfect. “long” is even better, it has very good male vocals, 4-on-the-floor beat, spacy strings PLUS chippy-blippy leads. I like chippy. I like this one. I love 8:10!
I think, I don’t have to say much about “meteor shower”, Foo did this himself (klick!). All I have to say, this tops the album off. Every feeling Foo describes in his single release post is in there.
“3 Smargaid Maerd” gave me a good time, it is a great soundtrack for mornings, it is on my music-player. Thank you for sharing your music, foo!
Greetz, Chris
edit: some typos…