The album cover describes the music quite well.

I've got a few fave songs on the album:

- God Gets You Back
- Fanzine Made Of Flesh
- If You Find This World Bad, You Should See The Others

Somehow, I've always linked Mogwai together with Explosions In The Sky, but that's really unfair. Mogwai songs are more predictable in structure, even though they do form differently from song to song; I mean, they're not predictable in a bad way, it's just how harmonies tend to flow in the same way.

The bare electric-guitar plucking that can start a track and then grow with reverb and a second guitar. Then, add synths. Add vocodered-out song. Drums. Distortion. Let the song… More

What an astounding album. Styles range from lo-fi noise à la Broadcast to metal-meets-Lana del Rey to experimental distant-sounding noise to lovely guitar-based scaled-down rock. This is truly inspirational and too short an album, even though it clocks in at nearly 90 minutes of length. Wow.

My modus regarding Merzbow:

1. I think about listening to a Merzbow record. (Side note: I've never re-listened to a Merzbow album.)

2. I think 'Holy shit, I hope this album isn't high-pitched.'

3. I start the album, volume very low.

4. Having ensured that my hearing won't be damaged, I start listening.

5. Around five minutes into the first track, I nearly always think 'Why did I start listening to Merzbow?' and also 'There's no other artist who's really like Merzbow.' and 'Holy shit, has he released around 600 albums, singles, and collabs?' and 'I wonder if he ever listens to his old albums. Why should he? Fuck it.'

6. After half an hour, I wonder whether I'm falling to… More

A very nice and plain noise record: it felt like what I'd imagine holding fans to your ears while falling through air would feel like.

The sounds were not high-pitched (à la Merzbow) but very mid-levelled; this made for nearly an ambient listening experience.

This is actually a very listenable album, considering how Merzbow usually includes a lot of high-pitched treble-laden noise. Au contraire, this is low-rumbling stuff (at least during the first 20 minutes); sounds made me feel as though massive ice-blocks were dragged all around me. In a good way, actually.

I had no problems working to this music!