Damn, just listened to this thing for the first time yesterday and have already listened to it like 5 times since then. As the cover predicts, this album has the feeling of a vertical soundscape in which different instruments are all being played at once. Sometimes this makes it almost impossible to tell them apart. Each time I have listened to it I notice fine details that I did not notice were present before. I mean Shields spent an entire week working on the tambourine part for To Here Knows ... read more

I get why people enjoy this album, but I think that the vocals aren't mixed very well and just doesn't sound good. I am a big fan of shoegaze and experimental electronic, so going into this I thought that it would appeal to me, but the lyrics are so basic and sometimes the noise and sound just goes over the top. I had to skip most of the songs on this album because they just annoyed the crap out of me and I couldn't listen for over a minute. I understand the praise that this album gets from ... read more