Don’t offers the twenty-first century a collection of songs whose weight is in musical symbolism. The use of the voice and the instruments, rather than explicit, is suggestive. As oppose to sounding like something, the musical experience leads the listener through a process of perception. This gives the music many of the mind-broadening advantages that the obvious and explicit music of the mass consumer culture contains a disappointing lack of. Don’t provides us with a personal synthesis of the developments of music within culture juxtaposing the vivid imagery of classical music with the intuitive approach and technological developments of the popular era.
-Orlando Robson
