The card, the card, and the slow crawl card have all been played by various reviewers to describe 's unique form of instrumental music. None of them has ever truly fit the band, and now even less than ever with (Ghost Fist), their fourth effort, released three years after . Even slower and more stripped down than before, the music loses its -laden atmosphere and becomes something eerily similar to ' then-recent efforts, namely and . The stretches of silence, the resonating chords, the cyclical melodic developments, and the paradoxical atmosphere of tension (what will happen next?) and relaxation (it is, after all, extremely smooth music, no need to be so tense) all point to the Australian trio a thousand times more than anyone on the roster of , the label that reissued to worldwide attention a year before came out. Then again, people who followed 's (d)evolution from to minimal -something will not be surprised by this new step. Some will find it lacking some punch, but given a few listens, it grows on you, especially thanks to the 20-minute and the 12-minute both masterpieces of subtle, disquieting nothingness. The concluding is the real shocker: a pure , with a full beat (i.e., with both a downbeat and an upbeat, instead of only cues) and a sultry sax solo. And so the most conventional piece becomes the oddest-sounding one. One can't see where can go from here, but in the meantime, makes a very unusual and fine listen, even though most of their fans will agree that it's not their strongest release. ~ Francois Couture