Overview
The album production did not involve any sequencing or sampling equipment, which had featured heavily on Squarepusher's previous work.[1] Many of the tracks instead have a 'live' feel, featuring virtuoso playing by Squarepusher on the drums and bass guitar. His own comments on the album include:
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One of the reasons that I headed in that direction as opposed to the more computer sequence-type stuff is because I was actually beginning to feel really limited using sequencers and samplers...I was really beginning to yearn for the sort of unpredictability of the randomness of improvising with live instruments. I was just starting to choke. The sequencer is too square, too digital. I just wanted to get really fucking loose and just start again somehow.[2] |
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There were also other principles at play at this time relating to harmonic content. One was that I was to abandon the overt usage of melody. This was because I had come to see it as a cheap way of getting people to like my music. It disgusted me that it was so easy to appeal to people and I thus introduced arbitrary rules to make it harder.[1] |
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Reception
The album won critical praise, with notable inclusion in Pitchfork Media's Top 100 Albums of the 1990s.
Track listing
All tracks composed and instruments played by Tom Jenkinson.
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| 1. | "Chunk-S" | 2:20 |
| 2. | "Don't Go Plastic" | 4:20 |
| 3. | "Dust Switch" | 4:28 |
| 4. | "Curve 1" | 2:06 |
| 5. | "137 (Rinse)" | 3:45 |
| 6. | "Parallelogram Bin" | 2:24 |
| 7. | "Circular Flexing" | 4:57 |
| 8. | "Ill Descent" | 2:37 |
| 9. | "My Sound" | 6:07 |
| 10. | "Drunken Style" | 0:45 |
| 11. | "Theme From Vertical Hold" | 4:25 |
| 12. | "Ruin" | 1:56 |
| 13. | "Shin Triad" | 2:26 |
| 14. | "Step 1" | 1:46 |
| 15. | "Last Ap Roach" | 4:00 |
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