for "extractions" Robin took Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins in the producer's chair, the sound of the band the corners took the once-edged and for its effects devices and high-tech equipment ascended that on former productions of the Cocteau Twins, Lush and felt hear is a lot of echo and reverb, the instruments go in sound image into each other and the drums are far back mixed. the old experiment of the band is, however, remained, the songwriting made a quantum leap, and the whole album seems from a romantic, yet sinister parallel world to come. the beginning of a nearly 8-minute saxophone solo ("Crosswinds") is more than unusual, the following "a starting point", with its seemingly endless melodic waves is already the first highlight. in the further course, the pace taken out something in every song wait sparkling guitar figures, dubby basslines and innovative rhythms to the handset finally with "echo wreck" (including a completely unfettered on drums Richard Thomas) and the off-hook "gunet" in higher spheres hovering allow. the peaceful idyll of "soarn" thrilled with exotic arrangement and super-concise drum game before "hu" with station-even field recordings and sawing feedback makes a radical cut. "Re" with its delicate Lead / Rhythm Guitar is one of the best album of all time-ender - who would have ever thought that you can play in the beat-combo format SO?
the original record consists of the tracks 1-9, the rest comes from earlier 12 "releases and was partially remixed, the new versions of the overall flow of the album very accommodating come. even if duplicating the compilations" out of the trees "and" Soundpool "are thus inevitable - as a collective work is" extractions "an almost perfect album and even after more than 25 years, still a milestone of instrumental rock.
