While more idiosyncratic than their debut, Helium's second and final album, promising to usher us into an indie fantasy world, also came short of amazing me with its sleight of hands. Nonetheless, having still managed, in the midst of it, to materialize out of thin air some thoroughly unexpected 8 minutes of Mary Timony just happily rummaging through her bag of guitar tricks, I can't very well say I've closed the book on her either; even if I doubt that, like most people trying to have a successful career in music, she ever dared giving in wholly to her innermost geeky musical inclinations, which is what "The Revolution of Hearts Pts. I & II" made me wish she felt she could.
