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All songs recorded and mixed between early 1999 and spring 2000.
Guitar – Jason Craig
Guitar, Music By [Music] – Hassni Malik
Music By [Music] – Stuart Carter

“Splintered, former guitar noise cum tape splicers from past days, are no more. They have reformed themselves into Theme, went into the studio for a long time (this CD took over a year to make). Theme move beyond the wall of guitar with additional heavy metal banging, sampling and field recording, with a variety of sounds and styles. The opening track moves from guitar tune into a ambient synth pattern that is almost minimal techno. Right after that you get served ‘Lines Swallowed Red’, with a dub percussion theme and ditto bass guitar. Breakbeats and all that form the backbone of ‘Real Is Seeing Blind’. There are pieces that seem to dwell entirely on samples, such as ‘Enmity Divided’, but the overall impression is that these boys play a lot of the instruments themselves (drums, guitar, synth), which adds to the more rock character of this, even when there are elements of dub, d&b or techno. The whole thing is a joy to hear, with great care of the details in the production. There are lots of small things, effects and washes everywhere to make this into an exciting album. Guitar underground of the past, match with new undergrounds of today…” (FdW)