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Dilate proves that the members of Bardo Pond keep finding ways to reinvent their sound, surpassing themselves each time they do.
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While previous albums gave a studio sheen to the noise, Dilate has a looser, more spontaneous feel to it.
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MojoBlissed out, beautiful... and quite probably bonkers, with Dilate Bardo Pond seem intent on redrawing their personal cosmos's final frontiers yet again. [May 2001, p.100]
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Entertainment WeeklyFor those patient enough to endure it, Dilate is an anesthetic high without the drugs. [4 May 2001, p.71]
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Alternative PressBardo Pond have become equally adept at making hearts and heads ache. [#155, p.68]
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The WireBardo Pond's most focused work to date. Who knows whether the group would take that as a compliment? [#206, p.61]
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MagnetOn Dilate, Bardo Pond does the trick by adding a bit of restraint and space to its familiar blend of Iommi-grade riffing, volume-induced overtones and Isobel SOllenberger's inimitably blasted moan. [#49, p.69]
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Improvisatory and poetic, Bardo Pond has more in common with avant-jazz and contemporary classical than with most heavy rock.
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According to the liner notes, Dilate took more than two years to record, beating the twenty-month-plus gestation period for 1999's Set and Setting. Fortunately, it works in our favor; they've used the time to experiment a bit, perhaps in an effort to garner fans beyond the nascent (but artistically stagnant) stoner rock genre.
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It's a psychadelic haze of an album with layers upon layers of sound, many tracks so dense that lead singer Isobel Sollenberger just becomes another element.
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Positive: 7 out of 7
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EzraJun 24, 2006