"Reservoir" is another long and spiraling journey, only completely devoid of a drum track (though I wouldn't call it 'ambient', either). "Path T'Zoar" is a slowly crawling epic house track that takes you from planet A to planet B, and by the end I don't remember exactly how it happened. "Tinned Teardrop" is set up as a funky dance track, but the bass and lead synths turn it into a bizarre trip into the dark side of IDM. The entire album is bathed in this strange eerie overtone, and this is what makes me want to listen to it again and again. Jeremy Simmonds' sometimes warbly, sometimes chunky synthesizer sounds are always just right. Luke Vibert's beats sound as fresh in 2008 as I'm sure they did when the album first dropped. I've been listening to this album for a few years now, just finally picked up a copy of the 2xLP.
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