Andrew Shapiro

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The album’s standout track Mint Green would go on to define Shapiro's early career. This six-minute jewel in its nature is furtive, an arcing, pacey piano solo which rises and falls delicately, its melody slowly emerging from a Debussy-like haze of almost-hesitancy. No matter how many times it’s heard you have to return to its cascading style. Mint Green would go on to garner nearly seven million plays on Pandora Internet Radio and become a regular soundtrack on American television. “Writing Mint Green was very Cocteau Twins-inspired. There’s a sharp 11th (G#) over a sort of D major and A major polytonality that gives it its liftoff. If there’s a sharp 11th it can sometimes become a very Cocteau Twins-esque type of thing. I love it.” —Mark Prendergast, author, The Ambient Century