Matthew Wilkinson

Incredible Stuff, Jan 8 2009

I don't know. It's just great. This is the kind of ambitious pop music I wish I could find more often. The album is immaculate from beginning to end.

If you're looking for a point of reference I'd compare it to Liars' 'Drums Not Dead,' or Deerhunter's 'Cryptograms.' But it really is doing its own thing.

A Classic: Vision of a Transcendent Future, Aug 29 2008

This album is astounding; worthy of standing shoulder to shoulder with Radiohead's 'Kid A,' or Liars' 'Drums Not Dead' as an outsider-rock classic.

It sounds like someone merged the tetris soundtrack with a symphony orchestra, then took the results, cut them up into a million pieces and carefully re-assembled them. What you're left with is transcendent, dark, difficult beauty that seems to point the way to the future of pop music.

One of the greatest albums ever made.

note: nothing in the rest of Cluster's long career comes even close to matching the brilliance of this album. In fact, a lot of their later stuff is soaked in the dull mediocre sounds of a… Read more

Kusturica's Best, Aug 15 2008

Pure cinema! Kusturica's chaotic vision is perfectly realized in this American film. Depp, Gallo, and Lewis give excellent performances.