tim exile presents a sprawling dark electro-pop masterpiece, drawing on baroque and industrial influences, as well as demonstrating his knack for great hooks and sonic experimentation. exile has been recording for co-electro-conspirators, planet-mu, for some time now so it is only natural for a man of his jagged-electronica-drillstep calibre to ink a deal with sheffield's finest no fear label and unleash a mind-munching brace of tracks called 'listening tree'. it pitches in somewhere between venetian snares, pivot, depeche mode, sweet exorcist, heaven 17 and isan. on warp.
