"For The Stranded" is a excellent IDM album with catching melodies and tricky beats. 10 tracks with high potential to be a hit album.

About Hotaru Bay:

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The word derives from Greek (mousike), "(art) of the Muses".

The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

Tracklist:

01. firefly reject
02. dropped off
03. mcs
04. 12_8 ångström
05. slow walker
06. picking up the pieces
07. the sleep
08. stranded
09. deadone
10. for nic