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The album has received positive reception and is considered to be an underrated cult classic among music journalists and how it is representative of The
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surrender to graceful beauty, as on #4's "All the Leaves". These poised, charming melodies recall their untitled second album, where quiescent songs flickered from within a heat chamber, walls glossed with steam and
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in 2022 on a limited edition of 300. To commemorate its 20th anniversary on the basis of when recording began, the album was manufactured by longstanding
Australian pressing plant
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558:Tambourine
546:Turntables
536:, Noises,
508:Flugelhorn
481:, Vocals,
238:repetition
221:soundtrack
217:a missing
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139:Space Rock
119:Noise Rock
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560:, Piano,
556:, Drums,
538:Xylophone
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