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Apart from an unscuccessful speeding up between intro to main, opening track 'Psionic Static' is a lovely piece of work: heavy, groovy, math, prog. You're thinking you're in for a real tour de force, but what do you actually get?

First, allow me to digress for a moment: there used to be a music club where I used to live. Bands played, local and touring, and for years it was a great place to go. Yet people stopped going. Why? Because the resident sound engineer and part-owner had wrecked his hearing and couldn't hear upper-mid frequencies. He therefore booted them way up in the mix, leaving a sound that physically hurt. This is what this album sounds like.

Somewhere, buried underneath layers and layers of painful sonorities and amateurish production is a truly great album. Really. In between wincing at yet another oddly EQ'd guitar noise, or suffocating stodgy electonica, or complete lack of bass frequencies, there are (or should be) moments of real transcendence.

Yet in track after track, one is left thinking how unpleasant the sound is. It's not as if they've been pushed for time (one album every three years).

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