An imaginatively-mixed, visionary album from the collaborators known for remixing everyone from the Pet Shop Boys to William Shatner, built to sound better with repeated listening . Perfect for driving in the country. 2002

Arid chillout pieces deep enough to avoid collapsing in on themselves, like "Questions Never Answered" (in which the question never answered is, "What did you do?"), and "Earth," in which an electronically altered voice narrates, "The whole surface of the earth/ Was changed/ Melting and flowing before my eyes." 1997

"I've got to have my coffee and my Art of Noise fix," now poet-author Rebecca Childers would explain to me on our way to classes in the 80's. I've been listening to Art of Noise ever since. This album somewhat controversially drops an implausible reworking of the "Dragnet" theme song into a nourishing soup of boys choir, racetrack sound samples, and the haute-pop "Fin du Temps." 1993