Parallax Error Beheads You | ||||||||||
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Studio album by Max Tundra | ||||||||||
Released | 20 October 2008 | |||||||||
Genre | IDM, indie electronic, glitch | |||||||||
Label | Domino | |||||||||
Producer | Max Tundra | |||||||||
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Allmusic | |
The Belfast Telegraph | (?) |
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The Independent | (?) |
Mojo | |
NOW | |
Pitchfork Media | (8.5/10) |
PopMatters | (8/10) |
Tiny Mix Tapes | |
URB |
Parallax Error Beheads You is the third studio album by Ben Jacobs under his stage name of Max Tundra. The album was released on 20 October 2008 through Domino Records. Tundra worked on the album for six years.
On 29 September 2008, the first single from the album titled "Will Get Fooled Again" was released on 7" vinyl and as a digital download. A music video for the single was first uploaded to Tundra's MySpace on 17 September 2008.
Parallax Error Beheads You was released in the United Kingdom on 20 October 2008 and in the United States on 18 November 2008 on LP and compact disc. A special edition of the album will be released in the United Kingdom. To celebrate the album's release, Domino Records released a version of Max Tundra's Kosher Chicken Soup that includes a special link to download a copy of his album plus a bonus download album of covers called Best Friends. Best Friends is a reinterpretation of the song from Max Tundra's first album Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be by his friends.
On 5 June 2010 Max Tundra effectively announced on Twitter that Parallax Error Beheads You would be the final Max Tundra album, but on 30 March 2012 he tweeted "I'VE STARTED WORK ON THE NEW MAX TUNDRA ALBUM"
Initial critical response to Parallax Error Beheads You was positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received a score of 76, based on 18 reviews.
All songs by Ben Jacobs