Metaphysics (Duncan Avoid album)

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Metaphysics
Duncan Avoid - Metaphysics album cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released2004
Genre Experimental, Electronic
Length57:14
Label Hive Records
Duncan Avoid chronology
Cybernetics
(2003)
Metaphysics
(2004)

Metaphysics is the second album by Duncan Avoid.

Track listing

  1. "Awakening" – 2:03
  2. "Auditory Arms" – 3:36
  3. "Parallel Grounds" – 4:07
  4. "Systemic Ressentiment" – 5:24
  5. "Lucid [Down the Rabbit Hole]" – 5:31
  6. "Attention Deficit Disorder" – 7:51
  7. "Consciousness Creeping" – 3:08
  8. "S.H.I.F.I." – 5:36
  9. "Convergence" – 3:44
  10. "Auditory Arms – 4:25 (remixed by C-Drik)
  11. "Cartesian Doubt" – 1:50
  12. "Convergence" – 4:21 (remixed by Subskan)
  13. "Plastone Ground" – 2:28 (remixed by Kotra)
  14. "Rue de la Fée Verte" – 3:42

Recognition

Metaphysics received widespread critical acclaim upon its initial release, [1] [2] and was named greatest album of the year by Xanopticon at Igloo Magazine. [3]

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