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This the ?rst time this monumental album has been available on the vinyl format in ?ve years.

REVIEW FROM ALBUM RELEASE IN 2007 - The long awaited new album from Stars of the Lid is finally ready for your sonic immersion, and it's truly outstanding. Painstakingly recorded, processed and assembled over the last five years, SOTL once again deliver a massive work, clocking in at over two hours. On this new record SOTL have placed an emphasis on melodic development, moving their epic soundscapes beyond mere drone and subsequently frustrating all the typical ambient cliches associated with their music. Perhaps the best references for this current work would be found in the score of the film Le Mepris by Georges Delerue, the orchestral works of Zbigniew Preisner, or the 1958 CSO/Fritz Reiner recording of Hovhaness' Mysterious Mountain, specifically the third movement. But in the final analysis, such comparisons are superfluous at best, as Stars of the Lid have created a musical universe in which they are the sole inhabitant. Simply put, this album is a masterpiece.