- Record Label: Touch and Go
- Release Date: Sep 5, 2000
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Though the band still sticks faithfully to their trademark sci-fi surf gimmick, they've omitted the annoying science film samples, and actually show, for the first time in years, traces of creativity.
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The results can, surprisingly, prove as musically rewarding as they are entertaining.
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Toward the end of Man or Astro-Man?'s A Spectrum of Infinite Scale there is a track called "A Simple Text File" which is nothing more than a recording of a dot matrix printer producing a hard copy of... a simple text file!... If only the rest of the album were this intensely cool.... Every great leap forward on Spectrum is accompanied by an equal and negative small step backwards...
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Though clever in origin, once these sounds have been identified, the songs themselves are rarely compelling enough to prompt return visits.
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jimjMar 9, 2003