The entirety of this album is deeply unsettling, with deceptively sunny keyboards filtered through tape recorders that make them sound broken and distorted and to this day, people and fans argue about what the album's themes truly are (not helped by the album's references to cults such as David Koresh and the Branch Davidians).
- Right out of the box with "Ready Lets Go", which is little more than an oscillating drone (used to very creepy effect during Baby Driver).
- "Music is Math", the second track and the first full song on the album, sets the tone. The lyrics are hard to make out (as they're being sung in a near-incomprehensible, tribal wail filtered through a vocoder) but consensus seems to be that they are: "we all fall down... we all fall down... down..."
- "You Could Feel The Sky". The ripping/tearing beats, the eerie drones, the backmasked "a God with horns" sample, and the yelling at the end all add up to create a track that is disturbing as much as it is beautiful.
- "1969" crosses Boards of Canada's Right to Children-era sunny sound with unsettling vocoder bits and references to cults. In fact, it's about the Branch Davidian
cult, which maintained a Stepford Smiler facade while their leader sexually abused children. - "Opening The Mouth", which consists of eerie flutes and ominous breathing in the background, is a good case of Nothing Is Scarier.
- "A is to B as B is to C", with its strange, garbled loops and samples. Towards the end of the track, an ominous backmasked chorus chants something that sounds astonishingly like "O Geogaddi! O Geogaddi!"
- "The Devil is in the Details", which is about hypnosis. Not a good idea to listen to in a dark room.
- It doesn't help that the backing beat sounds vaguely like an insect moving its wings back and forth.
- Someone backmasked it in its entirety, and used the end result in a Slender Man webseries known as Tribe Twelve. The result? A completely different track that feels like Uncanny Valley in sound form. Shudder.
- "Alpha and Omega", which gradually becomes more and more frantic and incomprehensible, and three-fourths into the song a loud and unexpected "yellow" is spoken.
- "Gyroscope" makes you feel like you need to be running from something. Not to mention the small child repeating numbers throughout the song.
- Even worse, according to an interview, Marcus had actually dreamt this song before creating it, and unlike others he dreamt, he did this one extremely quick, and yet still ended up 99 percent like it was in the dream. That's right, this song was entirely created from someone's subconcious.
- Even worse, according to an interview
- "I Saw Drones" is short, but downright threatening.note
- "Diving Station" features a serene piano melody contrasted by these horrbile metallic droning sounds akin to a faulty engine. Near the end of the song, the droning completely overpowers the piano and leaves the listener with nothing but harsh noise before fading. It genuinely wouldn't sound out of place in a horror film.
- "Corsair" is fairly tranquil compared to any of the other tracks, but still retains some ominousness.
- Not to mention the track after it, "Magic Window." Which is entirely silent.
- "Beware the Friendly Stranger". The more you look into the song, the worse it gets.
- "Dawn Chorus" is a bit odd at first, but starts getting really disturbing when you start to hear what appears to be a woman moaning as she's having sex.note
