This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Actually, what they should have said is don’t mind the gap — as in, the four years it’s been since these Hamilton indie-rock entrepreneurs (they own their own label and distribution company) released an album. But mind? Shoot, judging by the sheer scale and scope of this third full-length offering, I’m surprised they got it together as fast as they did.
Mind The Gap is a sprawling, multi-dimensional masterwork that finds the foursome confidently embracing and experimenting with a nearly endless array of styles — laissez-faire space-rock majesty on 10-minute opening track Promise, chewy boogie on Helicopter, fiery popcore on Launch, sequencer-driven math-rock on the instrumental The Move is Set, even overdriven Ted Nugent guitar-rock solos on Can’t Wait Forever. Forever? It’s bad enough we might have to wait four more years for another disc this ambitious and satisfying.
