Oh holy ****, I love this band. This album is completely unrecognizable from Beat Pyramid; you wouldn't think they were the same artist at all, and somehow it has managed to be another turn-around from Hidden that drops everything beat-based but still maintains the unsettling bleakness that I found so attractive on their last album. Ah wow, this band has done and is capable of some amazing things, and I'm glad this snuck up on me this year. Between this and Shaking the Habitual, it's a great year for weird, dark and meandering albums.
Ah this is such a perfect step to take after Hidden. Good god.