Central to Millions Now Living… was “Djed”, the album’s 21-minute opening track. It was an astonishing piece of compositional craft. Undoubtedly there was an element of fluke to it. The amalgamation of styles and reference points was too perfect to have been consciously planned. It pulled together almost everything Simon Reynolds was talking about, without becoming a faceless patchwork of the post-rock zeitgeist. I ask Pajo about it, and I mention how the track seemed to be a thorough exploration of listener headspace. Instruments were constantly disappearing, drifting and morphing, sucked
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