Oct 27, 2011 By Ryan Reed

Submerged in The Field’s ambient electronic ocean, I’m frequently reminded of a scene from Charlie Kaufman’s polarizing epic Synecdoche, New York. Protagonist Caden Cotard (played by Philip Seymour Hoffman), amidst a hallucinogenic cityscape of fragmenting psyche, delivers a frantic soliloquy, possibly about discovering the meaning of life just before it evaporates: “You think only about driving—not coming from any place; not arriving any place. Just driving, counting off time.” More