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Sometimes I feel like the stupidest person alive. Usually when reading my own blog, or thinking about past actions. Which is why I like thinking about music instead, writing new blog posts and then never reading them. Negativland is not stupid. I think they should be more well known, but their work requires context which you don’t really get with mp3s and most people don’t have the patience for anyway. And it’s tough to dance to for any meaningful length of time. That can’t help.

But forget about that. This is great album, easily their best. Even among Negativland records, it’s more of a disorienting conceptual collage piece than their records up to this point in their career of disorienting conceptual collage pieces that more of less take the form of “songs”. This is pretty much just two long pieces. I think of it as a bridge between their regular song-y albums and their radio distillation comp series Over the Edge and a sequel to previous album Escape From Noise.

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A bizarre series of circumstances has led me to think about this record for longer than the length of the only good song on it, which is the only song I have on my computer. But that song came up in shuffle, and I do own the record:

So there it is, just like I found it (in a box of mostly empty cd cases someone was throwing out). I only listened the whole thing once, then ripped Silent Lucidity onto my laptop, never to be listened to again.

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