“If avoiding categories is a virtue, praised be Add N to (X). When we first caught a glimpse of the band on the cover of its first record, featuring a garish and kitschy photograph in which a vintage Moog is pulled from a human stomach *Alien*-style, it was easy to peg them as some kind of retro art project, making music from the cast-off instruments of records past. That album confounded expectati”
