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"It’s hard to imagine why a fan of the genre wouldn’t find much to enjoy in this gorgeous and well-executed record." - PopMatters.com Strands from Cleveland electronic music artist and composer Steve Hauschildt is a song cycle about cosmogony and creation/destruction myths. The title alludes to the structural constitution of ropes, as the pieces consist of strands and fibres which form a unified whole. The songs could have the appearance of being either taut or slack without being fundamentally locked to a grid, so the sounds and tones have a certain malleability to them, as if bending through time. "(It's) grittier and more distorted than my previous albums. I wanted to try and capture that moment in nature and society where life slowly reemerges through desolation, so it has a layer of optimism ... the music represents this by seemingly decaying at times but then reforms and morphs in a fluid way back to its original state. I was also inspired by the movement of rivers, particularly their transformative aspect ... in particular the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland where I live, which notoriously caught on fire 13 times because of industrial pollution ... I was very interested in the dichotomy of oil and water and the resulting, unnatural symptoms of human industry. It's a very personal record for me as it is a reflection of my hometown where I grew up and where it was mostly recorded." - Steve Hauschildt