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.