"Meandering guitar improvisations/jams, driving drums, and despite all the experimental approaches and excursions, always clearly recognizable songwriting that doesn't lose sight of the song during the occasional freakout - navigates confidently through the expanding universe of noise, psychedelic, and experimental rock" - Holger Adam, Skug

"The band stretches its wings and takes full flight on the thunderous space rock jams “Hermetic Armada” and “Mögliche, Mögliche | Rekursiv.” ... Elsewhere on the album, the band launches into stretches of rumbling post-rock that quake with bass drum barrel rolls and clanging guitars. At other points, like “Until They Break,” the group leans further into their lysergic punk side, and charge with a full fuzz-distortion assault... Every facet of PU’s diverse sound you experience on this record is a total gobsmacker" - Keith Hadad, Record Crates United

"Möglicher, Möglicher | Rekursiv... swoops and lumbers around like a cosmonaut in a tin-can spaceship, struck by asteroids, and trying to get purchase on a helpful-looking lever. Its ten minutes fly right by. When I Was A Dune has a similarly anti-gravitational vibe. It vaguely flirts towards funk and dabbles a little bit in "Eastern" guitar patterns, while never ditching its key skronky base. Jury-rigged, Makeshift Assemblage comes close to country balladry before growing more math-rocky. Until They Break is like one of the Lee Ranaldo-sung highlights on a later Sonic Youth album. Hermetic Armada seems to be Primordial Undermind's take on groovy stoner rock. The set lasts just 40 minutes but they pack so much in that there's enough here to keep the repeat spins rewarding" - JR Moores, The Quietus

"tension, darkness, and urgency. Lyrics come and go, turning up only when they are summoned by the heavily fuzzed up guitars. Drums and bass fill in the blanks with a strong jazz feel, yet this is not that. It’s not jazz, and it is not experimental, it is four humans, listening closely to each other, and following the creative stream, from here to everywhere." - Jasper Hesselink, Weirdo Shrine

"the new primordial undermind album is an absolute beast. the kinda shit makes you fall in love with the electric guitar all over again. just forty wild minutes of guitar drum vox: barrelling, lurching, gnawing, thundering. it's been on all day. the cats love it" - Cowsarejustfood

"blurring the distinction between post-punk to psychedelic rock and intense and noisy improvisations... a much more adventurous unit and always seeks to push its sonic envelope and experiment with free-form, dissonant improvisations... or simply enjoying a powerful and stimulating jam" - Eyal Hareuveni, Salt Peanuts

"An Imaginal Abydos is Primordial Undermind’s eleventh album of all-new music, and the first new studio recordings since 2011. Through the band’s three decades of existence, Undermind frontal lobe Eric Arn has led the group through multiple incarnations – initially in the US, since 2005 in Vienna, Austria – that ranged along a musical spectrum from post-garage-psych stomp via spiky art punk and into avant-garde space, always maintaining an immediately recognizable aesthetic through-line. Of all the band’s incarnations, Vienna is the longest-lasting yet least-recorded, so just on that basis An Imaginal Abydos is a treat for longtime listeners, a studio snapshot of the current quartet (guitars, bass, drums) in hard-charging action in late 2019 and early 2020 (last days of the Before Times). Those good listeners will appreciate even more how the album’s musical contents channel sounds from all across PU’s past sonic scope – from structured songs to freeform improvisations, drone into dissonance, noise overload to hovering sparseness, a proper lysergic ruckus that snarls and spits when needed but is also quiet and understated in good measure. All of which makes it perhaps the most Undermind-ian PU LP yet, manna for old fans and a fine entry point for new ones; there’s plenty of guitar freakout, and it sounds mighty good with the volume on your hi-fi cranked way up. Seven songs, 39 minutes. " - Kevin Moist, Deep Water Acres