IEM Have Come For Your Children by I.E.M.

I.E.M. Have Come for Your Children, from 2001, the last studio album of Steven Wilson's side project, Incredible Expanding Mindfuck, here in the version taken from the CD of the box set Complete I.E.M.. 

Tracks 1-5 use improvisations from 1999 as starting material, extensively reconstructed and overdubbed in the studio in August 2001, while track 6 is a piece for dulcimer and mellotron choir. 

An excerpt from track 1 was present in the previous album, Arcadia Son, as the title track.

A complex album, in which the presence of Colin Edwin, Geoff Leigh, and Mark Simnett is felt, not so much in the basic tracks but in the splendid arrangements, which make this record (although without tracks defined by titles) the most structured of the entire I.E.M. discography.

Psychedelia, Space Rock, nightmares, dreamy atmospheres but always under a dense layer of clouds, mystery, sometimes unease. 

The sounds are echoing, long and expansive, they take all the time to express themselves, without being necessarily verbose, like psychedelic jams with great emotional impact. 

Among the four discs of the box set, this is the one I prefer. It doesn't give precise points of reference, but it is fascinating, attractive, full of virtuosity, creative ideas, sudden distortions, wonderful flutes, mellotron and guitars with grand sustain and an incessant but never monotonous rhythmic base. Beautiful work from our beloved genius.

Tracklist

1        Untitled    35:37
2        Untitled    8:02
3        Untitled    7:10
4        Untitled    12:02
5        Untitled    5:29
6        Untitled    4:31

Duration 72:40

LineUp

Steven Wilson

Colin Edwin

Geoff Leigh

Mark Simnett

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