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R. Wehrens | Netherlands | 01/28/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Got this album about half a year ago through a friend who picked it up in Australia.



Liked it immediately and and most tracks, especially "Kirsten Dunst" and "I may be gone for some time" are way on top of the Top 25 Most Played List on my 40G iPod."

An Excellent Bit of Space-Rock

Gordon Meade | 07/31/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Pivot manage to funnel Can, Tortoise, DJ Shadow, Yes and the complete works of Brian Eno into a pretty amazing bit of what may as well be called post-rock. I'd be tempted to label it as ambient electronica if the songs don't insist on fliping the switch over to Complete Rock Action all the time. And then turning-around and playing a lullaby at you. Jazz fusion, maybe? Ties-in with the whole "Pike" thing. Anyway it's dark, cuddly space-rock of a highly accessible "instrumental pop" bent and Holger Czukay would be proud.



Ignore the young person angry about this not being the "real" Pivot, anyway. These guys do the elctronic-crossover bit than most, managing to approach something that a lot of people thought had been done to death with a fresh outlook and some utterly incredible tunes. The highlight is definitely the 7-minute paranoid jam "Incidental Backcloth", which starts-out as a distorted clock-tick in the middle of your head, builds-up to a swirling mass of grooves, and ends with a gentle keyboard lulling you to sleep somewhere around Saturn.



And then there's "Montecore", built around a killer sequencer riff and an explosion of fuzz bass and building-up over half the track to a brilliantly-subdued breakdown.



This whole thing is great. Mangled samples skittering over dense snare grooves and killer breaks and a whole crazy landscape getting sketched-out for you.



I don't know what I'm saying but buy it because it's awesome."