Tragedy & Geometry Steve Hauschildt

“While “Polyhymnia” (the opening track) and “Music for a Moiré Pattern” offer the kinds of billowing arpeggios you’d expect from an Emeralds member, other moments call to mind different, sometimes unexpected reference points. With its jaunty beat and catchy tune, “Batteries May Drain” sounds like the backing track for some long-lost “Georgia”-era Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark production. “Allegiance,” meanwhile, sounds more in line with Emeralds releases like What Happened, but plays with texture and aural depth in a less somber context, enveloping the listener in thick, soothing drones. And “Blue Marlin” is simply gorgeous, seeming to take its cues more from the unapologetically new-age missives of Iasos than from the Kosmiche cosmonauts of 1970s Berlin.” - Josh Becker, Beats per Minute