"This still one of my top five favorite albums of all time. Nobody really talks about it ever; it's just shameful. That was the band of Ian Williams from Battles after he left Don Caballero. That album might seriously be my favorite record of all time. It was literally the soundtrack for that time for me.
The first time I heard it, I took ecstasy in my bedroom alone because there was nobody to hang out with. I bought that record based on packaging. It came in this clear vinyl envelope. It didn't have an actual cover. It was supposed to be this free jazz/pop/weird drone type record. I don't understand it in the context of what most of its core audience understands it as, which is math rock. I don't think of that record any differently than, like, a John Lennon record. It's just a spacey pop record, and it happens to be really fragmented. I don't listen to it as high art or something. I've never drawn lines of value between pop music and experimental music. It depends on your mood, you know? Music is just a personal convoluted thing. Only I understand why that Storm & Stress record is the best record of all time because I know what it sounds like on ecstasy in your bedroom alone at 20 years old."
-Bradford Cox