Smalltown Supersound

Despite being just three tracks, each over ten minutes long (the first of which is almost thirty minutes!), Lindstrøm’s first true album isn’t the attention sapper you’d fear it might be. Instead, it utilizes the long format as a means of slowly building each song (and the whole album) into a very coherent, disco space odyssey. The album starts out droning, preparing for a psychedelic experience, but quickly morphs into the slick, melodic beats that Lindstrøm is renowned for. The songs are repetitious in parts, but there are enough clever layers and twists to make this an opus to space out to — repeatedly.

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