Imogen Heap - Ellipse

On first listen, this seems to be more of the same from the queen of Emo-Vocoder. But as the album progresses, I'm beginning to think that the album is an extreme definition of Heap. A stripped back, skin'n'bones translation of her last effort, although it seems like a backwards step for Heap in terms of production, it seems a natural progression in terms of where she is aiming to go next.

This will probably not garner any mainstream popularity like she aimed to achieve with the last album, and probably appropriately so, as spiltting the album into 'releasable' singles would ruin the overall flow and simplicity that the record gives off. Apart from 'Swoon' maybe. I would love something as bizzarely listenable as that to be released, and gain her some notoriety.

So by all means, she hasn't lost the magic or the spark, she's just toned it down a bit.
After all, looking at a supernova and a normal star from Earth are the same thing, aren't they?