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. It was released on June 6, 2006. The album features a cover of The Beatles' song "

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Reception

Like its predecessors, the album received largely positive reviews from critics. Fred Thomas of ''

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'' found the "gentler" album to be "drenched in dubby reverb and delay, tucking its more menacing tones in layers of starlit musical wandering and resonating the most on subdued numbers like the sprawling "Isle" and a hazy reading of the Beatles' "Cry Baby Cry."" Jennifer Kelly of ''

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'' considered the music to be "beautiful and ..disturbing" in its combinations of "

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and psychedelic metal." '' Gigwise'' hailed it as a "damn loud and a damn fine album", while Eric Hill of ''

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'' called it the band's best album since '' Lapsed''. More mixed reviews came from Cameron Macdonald of ''

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'' who found the band to be stylistically stagnating with the album, and criticized the closing track "Montana Sacra II" as being " great opportunity squandered." In an otherwise positive review, Christian Maiwald of ''

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'' found Sollenberger's vocals to be occasionally distracting & criticized the songs as being too short. ''

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s Mia Lily Clarke criticized the "overwhelming" use of flute & some of its "cloying

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mayhem." A negative review came from Spanish magazine ''

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'', which scored the album a 1 out of 10.

Track listing

All songs by Bardo Pond, except as noted.

CD track listing

#"Destroying Angel" – 9:38 #"Isle" – 11:13 #"Lost Word" – 6:29 #"

" ( John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:56 #"FC II" – 18:16 #"Moonshine" – 10:45 #"Endurance" (lyrics by Gary Snyder)– 5:09 #"Montana Sacra II" – 10:45

Vinyl track listing (2013 reissue)

Side A #"Destroying Angel" – 9:38 #"Isle" – 11:13 Side B #"Lost Word" – 6:29 #"Cry Baby Cry" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 4:56 #"Endurance" (lyrics by Gary Snyder)– 5:09 Side C #"FC II" – 18:16 Side D #"Moonshine" – 10:45 #"Montana Sacra II" – 10:45

Personnel

;Bardo Pond *Isobel Sollenberger – Vocals, Flute, Violin *John Gibbons – Guitar, Synth, Percussion *Michael Gibbons – Guitar, Producer, Engineer *Clint Takeda – Bass *Ed Farnsworth – Drums ;Additional musicians *Christina Madonia – Second Vocals on "Destroying Angel" *Tom Greenwood – Guitar on "Lost Word"

References

{{Authority control 2006 albums Bardo Pond albums ATP Recordings albums