"It had been over 5 years since the release of Cyclic Operations when we first started work on the new album in earnest, so we wanted it to be a representation of how our music has evolved in that intervening period," Spektre shares of the album. "The writing process itself was a lot more reductive than the previous two albums. We holed ourselves up for a few months and hammered out loads and loads of ideas, then filtered and refined the pool through playing them out and getting feedback from a few trusted pairs of ears, until Against a Dark Background began to crystallize into its final form."
With such a process, it's no wonder the duo had looked to other works for inspiration. To help us understand the album in a deeper, more contextual level, Spektre has exclusively shared 10 seminal tracks that served as grounding motivations in its creation.
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