"Pickering Pick's Lost Transmissions is life music -- and what I mean by that is these songs could be playing at almost any point in your life and they would seem like part of your own soundtrack. I liked 2005's Trafalgar and Waxwing, but this one is something on a different level. It's spacy at times, moving and simple and easy to relate to, both sad and joyful, and in all of it you can hear... well, love, if I may be so disgustingly lame as to use that as a term to describe songs.

I kept searching my brain to figure out what this album was most reminding me of, because I knew it was something that I really loved, and I knew it was something that was a "classic." After much thought, I've figured it out: Lost Transmissions reminds me of The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars. It doesn't seem like it's on purpose, and frankly there may be nobody that gets that out of the album except for me, but I have gone there, sister. It's not the content (Bowie's "Five Years" is the only one that I could see fitting in with Pickering Pick's songs), it's just the demeanor of the music.

And it's damn near as good, too. "To Those Who Found Us" just jumped at me on the first listen, the second and best track on the album. It sounds haunted, not haunting. "Gadfly in Isolation" has the same sort of thing going for it. They don't sound sad and they don't seem like they have the intent to remind you of things you'd rather forget, but it's just kind of what happens. Actually, it's when the piano takes the lead on "Gadfly" that I just went, "Goddamn, this is good," and I stopped even thinking anymore. This is great music that should be heard by anyone with even a minor interest. Wonderful songwriting and the type of moodiness that I like out of my music."

4/5 - tobeanecho @ rateyourmusic.com