Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent

John Cage defined experimental music as having an unclear outcome, that is, when you sit down to record you're not sure what you've recorded is going to sound like. This record adopts that strategy and takes it a step further by both crafting a collage of such moments and by meticulously guiding them to their proper place in the structure. A lot of Faust's music borders on the free-form and structureless, but on this album they find the perfect balance, the middle way.