Exquisite, top-notch packaging with postcard-sized artwork for each track using a combination of computer graphics, painting and photography. Standout bass and strings that blend perfectly into a heady, melodic metal that could possibly hail from Eastern Europe, where opium and incense are plentiful. The layers are like a maze of dark gauze, each floating to the surface in turn, only to drift back and reveal the next. Vocals are alternately guttural narration and Lisa Gerard-angelic. The title is inspired by the work of a Czech mathematician, according to the notes, and the theory that some complex mathematical systems can never be wholly true or complete. There's certainly nothing incomplete about this album; it drifts seamlessly and meditatively, resulting in a haunting album that's hard to place and difficult to recall once it's over, enticing you to slip back into its depths all over again. 10/10 --
April Larson (24 June, 2009)
