There was a fantastic quote from a review by Simon Reynolds in Artbyte, in which he said that their music enacts the “optimism of the will versus pessimism of the intellect” – again, this irrepressible passion for change in the face of monstrous adversity, dancing furiously within the monolithic concrete fortress of the status quo. The artwork for the album came with a graphic representation of the entire album as rectangular segments – each representing a different movement – arranged into a horizontal strip, each sized and slanted according to the undulations of dynamic intensity.
