After nearly 12 years of making noises and rocking the guitars, The Ecstacy Of Saint Theresa lived an incredible number of changes, both in line-up and in sound. The first thing one will remark is that this album is maybe their finest moment ever. Then, to anyone who heard The Ecstacy Of Saint Theresa's previous album, In Dust 3, the jump to Slowthinking will be hard and easy at the same time. The electronic edge returns : the delicate voice of Katerina Winterova recover cleverly crafted beats, compromised of glitches and hard explosions, and that alone could be breath-taking. But everything take a new turn when the duo decided to trade most of the synth-armada of In Dust 3 for an insane amount of organic instruments. The final equation is rather confusing, but this album isn't just another innocent experiment : in fact, it's nearing on perfection in almost every aspect.

From the groovy moments of Local Distortion to the thin-ice-fragile works of Plain.com, everything recalls the magic of geniuses like Björk or Fourtet, all the while never feeling like it was meant to sound like it. Whether it sounds at moments like an acoustic version of T. Raumschmiere or like the best moments of Schneider TM's hybrid works (with a whole orchestra behing him, that is), the music of Slowthining is simply too good to be true and show the way to go to many artists who seek to conjugate minimal glitches with organic components.

On the whole record there is only one song which could have been done better, and it's "Then I'd Have Less Time For Myself". But then again, asking more than Slowthiking has to offer would surely be asking for too much.