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called the album "an intense document of Black Dice's evolution—cycling through styles and equipment like they're simple and meaningless tools, eyes on the goal of reorganizing sound and transforming it through sheer volume."
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called it "an ethereal journey that will have your mind stimulated and body trembling," consisting of impressionistic "free-form compositions ambiguous melodies and off-kilter polyrhythms."
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It is not to be confused with the 1997 compilation of the same name by the Los
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416:psychedelic
81:Psychedelia
853:Categories
733:4 November
517:References
365:Background
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130:chronology
128:Black Dice
89:electronic
42:Black Dice
812:Pitchfork
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482:: Guitar
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463:Personnel
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418:record."
408:Popol Vuh
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371:hardcore
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177:Source
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95:Length
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112:Label
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