For his ACT debut, Mikael Mani Asmundsson plays solo guitar on this collection of personal originals. His tone is confident and bright, clear during “She’ll Arrive Between 10 & 11” while tender on the slightly funky “Katie, Not Klara”. The strings display a nice vibrato on “What Once Was” and there’s a dash of American folk on “Maturing Backwards”. Gentleness is on his mind for “Closing the Book” and deep pond reflections occur on ”You Know How This Will End.” Confident casual.