Pearce's most recent ambient work, Summer Solstice, is a marked continuation of the sounds explored on To the Shores of Heaven, and is a much more satisfying follow-up to that excellent album than The Light Beyond. On Summer Solstice, a light, floating sensation fills the listener from the first moments of track one, "The Longest Day." This is the sound of lying back on a grassy hill with sun in eyes. It's hard to decide exactly how Pearce instills a spiritual feeling (and what sort of spiritual feeling it is can ... be a source of mystery) in his music, but that feeling is strong and oceanic, as if you have somehow viewed an unchanging truth about the universe--this knowledge is important, but its application is unknowable.