X'ed Out

Tera Melos - X'ed Out
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2013 Ratings: #36 / 1115
User Score
Based on 55 ratings
2013 Rank: #249
Liked by 3 people
April 16, 2013 / Release Date
LP / Format
Sargent House / Label
Math Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
No Ripcord

Though not necessarily ready for FM radio, X’ed Out at the very least introduces a far-reaching musical concept to a better known and understood conversation most people are having, adorning their approach with identifying tweaks and percussive intensity.

85
The 405

It's taken them a while to get here, but the band are at the top of their game in so many respects. 

80
AllMusic

There isn't a soft spot on the album. X'ed Out is more fleshed-out, listenable, and revelatory than one could ever expect. 

80
Sputnikmusic

For a band that made their breakthrough promoting the spontaneous nature of math rock, it's surprising to see them make their comeback with an album that often compromises that once essential characterstic.

71
Pitchfork

Even if it’s a fourth album delivered with the enthusiasm and conviction of a debut, Tera Melos sound too damn geeked about where they are now to let X’ed Out be a definitive document.

xcomebackkid
85

10 years later X'd out serves as a rebirth for Tera Melos. Like a newborn opening his eyes to a foreign land or the uncomfortable woozy wonderment the night after a crazy party. Something is different, a real growth, a real discovery, even in those quite moments between the crushing math blows, there can be found small mathy sprouts with magical potential.

75

An interesting combination of math rock and shoegaze/noise rock, which results in a more accessible and interesting math rock, but however also creates sounds much less interesting or even boring, the album has its highs like in Weird Circles, bite or Sunburn, The rest isn't particularly bad but just can't keep me tuned

progressivehead
90

Tera Melos is one of the best math rock bands of all time, they're not really well known, but if you want to get into math rock, this might be the album your looking for. This album had very high high's but very low low's. The more alive moments are way better than the silent and calm moments.

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Track List

  1. Weird Circles
  2. New Chlorine 
  3. Bite
  4. Snake Lake
  5. Sunburn
  6. Melody Nine 
  7. No Phase
  8. Tropic Lame
  9. Slimed
  10. Until Lufthansa
  11. Surf Nazis
  12. X'ed Out and Tired
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Added on: May 13, 2013