“Legendary Pitchfork scribe Samir Khan once said that Stars of the Lid make the kind of music that makes consciousness seem like an annoying state. I hadn't yet heard the band when I read those words in his review of *Per Aspera Ad Astra*, but I knew I was going to soon. This was a time, if memory serves, when engagement with the everyday world of the senses took more courage than I could muster. A”
