Will Charczuk

The winding road that led me to this album was looking into Vitsoe shelves, which led me to a documentary on Dieter Rams, in which he plays this record on his hi-fi wearing sunglasses and dancing.

I am not sure what this route is a time capsule of but the album is great and I can see why Rams really liked it.

I got into Tycho with Dive and played that album to death, but to me this is the best album Scott has produced and what I always come back to.

There are few electronic albums that mix live instruments with synths well, and this is one of them. My first intro to Tycho, this album had probably hundreds of plays by the time the followup came out. It also cause me to drag my friends to see them live. The start of a journey that would ultimately result in me moving to SF (the erstwhile home of Tycho), and understanding more fully the environment that would produce sounds as blissful and varied as are found here.

Standout tracks are "A Walk" and "Coastal Brake".

A classic electronic album.

Growing up listening to Orbital and Underworld sort of set the bar in a weird place for electronic music and especially albums. This album is the prime example.

It's coherent and artful in ways that other electronic albums generally are not. The sounds are not dated, they're timeless and raw and full of energy.