Richard Davies is regressing, but in a good way. In his Australian band, the Moles, he was a critically acclaimed, commercially unsuccessful '80s punk rocker. Then, with Eric Matthews and Cardinal in 1994, he composed progressive, '70s-ish, elaborately orchestrated pop. Since then he's been lost in the '60s.

On Telegraph his songs recall the Kinks ("Surface of the Sun"), the Hollies ("Papillon"), and the Rolling Stones in their quieter moments ("Confederate Cheerio Call"). And although the second half is the slightest bit draggy, Davies' music is reflective and soothing, like a day off from work, school, your industrial- gray life.

The CD-ROM, on the other hand, is more than a little disappointing. It tries to summarize Davies' career by combining very few short audio clips from the Moles, Cardinal, and his first solo release, with snippets from an interview. Although the graphics are stylish, there's the sense that this treatment of his career is a bit superficial and short. Overall, it's not a terrific example of using a creative medium creatively.

-James Coyle