The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps

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The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps
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Studio album by
Released2003
Genre Post rock, Alternative rock
Length47:40
Label Dim Mak Records
From Monument to Masses chronology
From Monuments to Masses
(2002)
The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps
(2003)
Schools of Thought Content
(2005)

The Impossible Leap in One Hundred Simple Steps is an album by the post-rock band From Monument to Masses. It was released in 2003, and was the band's second release on Dim Mak Records. As with other albums released by the group, there are numerous television, radio and film sound clips played within tracks, ranging from clips of George W Bush, to a Morpheus speech from the film The Matrix .

Track listing

  1. "Sharpshooter" – 8:52
  2. "From the Mountains to the Praries" – 8:58
  3. "The Quiet Before..." – 2:55
  4. "The Spice Must Flow" – 7:53
  5. "Comrades & Friends" – 4:06
    • Contains a quotation from Noam Chomsky.
  6. "Old Robes" – 8:10
  7. "To Z (Repeat)" – 6:49
    • Contains quotations from Sunera Thobani and Frederick Douglass.

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