From PandoraoceanbluSixty-eight minutes, The End Records, August 2002, and almost defiantly unhurried. Don Anderson has said the band arranged the album cinematically, thinking in images and how sound might express them, which accounts for how much of it is quiet: the heavy passages land precisely because they are withheld.
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