After a painfully inactive five year gap, this Norwegian nine-piece return to reclaim another maligned genre: prog. The accursed catch-all “electronica” and the substanceless “post rock” were transformed on previous offferings into marvelously eccentric and beautiful opuses; it seems with every influence of supposed ill repute they add to the palette, by some Nordish voodoo their scope and power widen without dilution.

Whilst there’s something distasteful about riff workouts,  the kaleidoscopic title track is crass-free, psychedelic rather than overwrought. The spacey, ‘70s-aping polyrhythms of ‘220V/Spektral’ are enchanting rather than cheesy, and on ‘Toccata’ the band wrap themselves around some decidedly Reich-esque minimalism without breaking so much as a sweat.