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01. AND - Particle
02. AND - The Epoch of Recombination
03. AND - Power Spectrum
04. AND - Cosmic Strings (CD-only)
05. AND - Relic Radiation
06. AND - Gravitational Waves
07. AND - Photon Visibility Function (CD-only)
08. AND - Non-Sky Signal Noise
09. AND - Acoustic Oscillations
10. AND - Galactic Motion (CD-only)
11. AND - Diffusion Damping
12. AND - The Surface of Last Scattering (CD-only)
ARTIST
TITLE
Cosmic Microwave Background
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
EDLX 038CD EDLX 038CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
11/4/2014

Having honed a clear and uncompromising sound, which has been flexed across all manner of tempos, AnD return to Electric Deluxe with their first full body of work: a sonic contemplation of the cosmos, woven with all their industrial tropes intact. The venomous hats and cavernous rumblings on "Power Spectrum," the caustic squeals of "Acoustic Oscillations" and the anxious pistons in "Gravitational Waves," for example, should instantly resonate with fans of the duo's wanton dancefloor works. But another cataclysmic compilation this is not. Cosmic Microwave Background is a far more composed and calculated affair, which sees the AnD sound assiduously recast into album format. The analog bleeps of "Particle" and grainy textures in "The Epoch of Recombination" are some of the fluctuations that temper AnD's debut album into a solid listening experience, meanwhile exposing some of the pair's fluid and intuitive working process -- with themselves as much as with their machines. Juxtaposing production precision with more freeform composition, Cosmic Microwave Background as an opus is as intriguing and unexpected in its entirety as its individual parts. Not that the album is quite so black and white. There are anomalies such as "Non-Sky Signal Noise" which tread the velveteen grey area in between, with truly rewarding results. On Cosmic Microwave Background AnD have found their door between worlds, and flung it wide open. The sleeve artwork has been created from a series of paintings by AnD themselves, reinterpreted here by EDLX's own in-house designer Jan Willem van de Baan into a set of industrial-evoking pieces inspired by the sound and aesthetics of the album.