Absorption chose the name they did because they feel that their music is a "sponge, taking found sounds and seemingly conflicting influences and molding them into one coherent piece". You might disagree, as do I, with the word "conflicting", as this once-dissonant music is old hat for acts such as the Dust Brothers and Crystal Method, and it's all over film scores of the last decade. In fact, much of Absorption sounds like those two groups' trip-hoppier B-sides. Each cut consists of a downtempo acoustic-yet-manipulated drum loop, drone (usually created with guitars) and an occasional mysterious sample, all wrapped up in a trancelike structure with no climax. Though often hypnotic and gorgeous (like something you might hear on your iTunes "Downtempo Grooves" station), it slips readily into Eric Serra (Fifth Element) soundtrack territory too often -- a bit too easy to ignore when it's on, and begging for a visual picture or a vocal or something to lift it out of its stagnant lockstep. If this is your thing, listening to music that you can put in the background while you execute the daily minutia, check it out. If you crave a bit more substance and someone taking the electronica-mixed-with-guitars shtick a little further, then you might want to look elsewhere.