That's one of my favorites from Extricate - I've always loved the slower and moodier Fall tracks that build tension and offer release. The albums that best exemplify this style of theirs I think are Perverted By Language and Bend Sinister, which happen to be my two favorite albums by them.
There's the more common and milder variation of this approach where the songs just kinda chug along at a hypnotic pace, while shifting only slightly in tempo and pace. Sort of like this underrated track from The Frenz Experiment.
I remember back in college being slightly drunk, smoking cigarettes out on campus (a rather common occurrence) as I walked from one place to the other in the dark of the night, dimly lit by the lampposts, and tracks like this were the perfect soundtrack. The disciplined and steady military march of the drums on this track always makes me think of Manson's Beautiful People:
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