I have known Dan Meyer for years under the name of SmashMethod, a long time contributor to DevArt. He now also goes by 
the moniker Fictionalhead, and he still is a visual artist, but also is back at putting out music material, this time as a solo entity (having been in a few bands before).
Dan has the entire debut, It Only Ends Once, available for free download. As a bonus, you can also download a full sleeve/booklet that showcases his exceptional design skills.
My review is fairly basic; this thing shows a fairly concrete sense of writing and construction of various compositions into a coherent complete package. I have found myself listening to this repeatedly over the past few days, and I find hints of things that remind me of Stewart Copeland (an often slinky, cinematic flow and the use of off-kilter piano figures) and William Orbit (fluid, sparse use of space and atmospherics) and a certain anthemic trance like pulse in a lot of places.
These are very good things in my opinion. Many of the cuts, like This is What It Means, have delicate narratives that one could imagine played out within them, and other have more dramatic sweeps, as in the title track and One Story. There is an almost wistful melancholy to the album, but with an undercurrent of hopefulness.
None of the tracks sound the same, but all sonically fit together well. It has a great flow and does not get hampered by overuse of any particular sample or fill. Things repeat and resolve when they should, and run their course without a sense of being too short or going on past their welcome.
About my only criticism (and it really isn’t even that) is that some of the tracks sound like great candidates for remixes. And by remixes, I mean some sound like they could be very interesting with a certain punchiness was added in the rhythmic structures, because the overall compositions really need not one note changed.
I am a fan of lots of lower register antics, whether its in post-punk, funk, jungle or chamber quartets (cellos FTW) so some of the tracks had me imagining added parts with deep strings or woodwinds or just tweeked out synth bass or the drums brought up in the mix. It might just be years of sitting in a studio on weekends and wasting hours on finding the exact snare echo effect correctly, or just the right level of seismic pulse, but I always listen to rhythm parts and run permutations in my head of alternate possibilities. Maybe a remix called It Only Ends Twice.