A Spectrum of Infinite Scale

A Spectrum of Infinite Scale is a full-length album by Man or Astro-man?, released in 2000.^[4][5] It was released as a CD and a double 10" on clear yellow/red vinyl, on black vinyl, and on additional clear colors.

A Spectrum of Infinite Scale
Studio album by Man or Astro-man?
Released	2000
Genre	Electronic, experimental
Label	Touch and Go Records[1]
Man or Astro-man? chronology
EEVIAC operational index and reference guide, including other modern computational devices (1999) A Spectrum of Infinite Scale (2000) A Spectrum of Finite Scale (2001)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Pitchfork	7.8/10[3]

The band plays an ImageWriter II on the eleventh song, "A Simple Text File."^[2]

Critical reception

AllMusic called the album "another very good collection of tight playing and propulsive instrumentals."^[2] Exclaim! wrote: "Being one of the only groups to deservedly make it out of the mid-'90s surf revival, these guys continue to add influences and create a new style of their own that all but leaves surf behind."^[6] Orlando Weekly wrote that "more than ever, the guitars are telling stories of adventure."^[7]

Track listing

1. "Pathway to the Infinite"
2. "Song of the Two-Mile Linear Particle Accelerator"
3. "Preparation Clont"
4. "Curious Constructs of Stem-Like Devices Which Now Prepare Themselves to Be Thought of as Fingers"
5. "Um Espectro Sem Escala"
6. "Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick"
7. "Trapezoid"
8. "Very Subtle Elevators"
9. "Within One Universe There Are Millions"
10. "Spectrograph Reading of the Varying Phantom Frequencies of Chronic, Incurable Tinnitus"
11. "A Simple Text File"
12. "Obligatory Part 2 Song in Which There Is No Presently Existing Part 1, Nor the Plans to Make One"
13. "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage"

Japanese release

The Japanese version inserts two exclusive tracks, making "Multi-Variational Stimuli of Sub-Turgid Foci Covering Cross Evaluative Techniques for Cognitive Analysis of Hypersignificant Graph Peaks Following Those Intersubjective Modules Having Biodegradable Seepage" track 15.

• Track 13: "Particles In Acceleration"
• Track 14: "Two Microscopic Creatures Meet, One Devours The Other "

References

1. "Spectrum of Infinite Scale". Touch and Go Records. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
2. "A Spectrum of Infinite Scale - Man or Astro-man? | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.
3. "Man or Astro-Man?: A Spectrum of Infinite Scale". Pitchfork.
4. "Man or Astro-man? | Biography & History". AllMusic.
5. "Man or Astro-man?, Roky Erickson, Mose Allison". Philadelphia Inquirer. 5 November 2010.
6. "Man or Astro-man? A Spectrum Of Infinite Scale". exclaim.ca.
7. "Review - A Spectrum of Infinite Scale". Orlando Weekly.