Wong’s bag of performative tricks has always run deep, but the songs on Mediation utilize his virtuosic technique in service of more striking compositional payoffs than ever.
This album shows Wong at his most refined and compositional, maintaining the spontaneous spirit of his playing while delivering a final product more focused and satisfying than anything he's done before.
Wong, using only his guitar and his loop pedal, is somehow able to create music that is as sophisticated and engaging as it is layered and complex.
For those that do return Meditation of Ecstatic Energy becomes deeply rewarding, its rich palette of sounds still able to surprise time and time again.