Many thanks to Mount Maxwell Radio for a lovely and thoughtful review of "Shut-Eyed Stories": "Wonderfully perplexing 13-track album based, presumably, on the artist’s own recorded dreams. Cheff’s music sounds vaguely Radiophonic/Ghost Box, while Cheryl Love’s narration is pure BBC. In less capable hands the whole thing could have been a recipe for disaster, but Cheff keeps it interesting by resisting the urge to tie a narrative bow around his dream’s conclusions. Instead, the tracks end much like actual dreams; suddenly, strangely, and inconclusively, with Love’s final utterances hanging in the air like riddles ..." (read more)
