Vitaly's note: With more than 120 discs in my personal queue on average, it sometimes takes as long as a year for me to get around investigating, etc., what I have to. I must spend no less – often more – than 12 hours (read: two days) on any particular recording to achieve an objective, deliberate, review of it. I clearly realize that many label managers as well as ‘independent’ musicians hate delays with reviewing their output (some of them having already stopped sending me those :-), but I must admit it turned out to be beyond my powers to switch a more superficial approach to my work. After all, the survival of our beloved genre wholly depends on its consumers, and so I see the main task of any progressive reviewer as trying to keep them well informed on what they’re looking for, to put it in a generalized way.