Apparently what the band wanted to do this time around was see how many notes and electronic effects and sounds they can fit in to each song. The first two songs, "Coily" and "Xingu" seem a bit drawn out, although the former features some great guitar work. The latter features some rather irritating synth sounds that just don't stop. But the real good stuff coming up, with the amazing "Waterfall City", which really shows the band stretching out with great space jams, and a pulsing, techno-like passage in the midde. "Ch'ai" is a rather Chinese-influenced number with some great funky synth bass. "Spiralmind" is perhaps the album's best cut, along with "Waterfall City", pretty much covering similar territory. "Sultana Detrii" starts of in reggae territory, something that seemed pretty absent in the Ozric's work since 1990's Erpland ("Iscence" off that album was their last reggae piece up until Waterfall Cities).

It's nice to see the Ed, Zia, John, Rad, and Seaweed lineup finally do a reggae piece. The second half of the song moves away from reggae and more typical Ozric territory, with some great exotic use of flute at the end. The album ends with a more ambient piece, "Aura Borealis", with some great spacy synths at the end. Nice to see Ozrics pull off another fine album in an era of N' Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, etc. (I am totally convinced if kids were exposed to the likes of Ozrics, they might not think those boy bands were so great).

Waterfall Cities isn't the best place for the Ozric newcomer, even their previous and following efforts (Curious Corn, The Hidden Step) are better places to start, it's still a find album to include in your collection.