Staying true to the spirit of the band's name, Company's live shows are all about a community of friends and fans having a good old time together. Translating the experience to the album format has been a somewhat harrowing task. Parallel Time has been a long time coming. It is the fourth full-length recording by the prolific group, but the first available in wide release. Company found an ideal setting to immortalize its craft at Paul Oldham's Rove Studio in rural Shelbyville, Kentucky. Rove doubls as Paul's home and the relaxed efforts of the band are a testament to that; the hospitality the group enjoyed in the company of Paul, his wife Christa, and their magical dogs is evident in every stroke of this swimmingly painted portrait of the great big what-the-fuck.With Paul's superb technical and artistic collaboration, Company spent a week molding the record between innings of Wiffle_ ball and rigorously executed communal meals. The results speak for themselves: Parallel Time is a mosaic of musical and lyrical ideas that represent the culmination of a long relationship. David drives the quartet through the varied back-roads of the band's collective sub-conscious with his enigmatic and compelling rhythms as Stephanie, Christopher, and Adam alternate as wordsmiths and singers. From the mystical landscapes of youth found in "Dragon is the Mother Tongue" and "Emeralds" through the latent emotional storms brewing in "The Wooden Hall" and then exploding in "I've Been a Child" with the revealed secrets and whispered pleas of "The Widow's Man" and "Deliver Me" heard along the way, listeners find themselves in places strange and beautiful. As dark as it may get, they know they are in good hands.