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This Ice­landic band con­structs sound­scapes with old-fash­ioned elec­tron­ic effects rem­i­nis­cent of the 1970’s. The cheesy beeps and whirs grad­u­al­ly build into intel­li­gent struc­tures, with ele­ments of hard rock and house. I espe­cial­ly liked track sev­en, “Ser­e­mo­nia”, which builds to a sat­is­fy­ing res­o­lu­tion. Jóhann Jóhanns­son, Ice­land’s won­der­ful­ly sin­is­ter-look­ing com­pos­er and mul­ti­me­dia impre­sario, is behind it all. If you like lis­ten­ing to old Kraftwerk albums, and the instru­men­tal piece “Tel­star” drifts out of your sub­con­scious when you come out of a coma, you’ll enjoy this.