Excavation is the second studio album by English musician Bobby Krlic under the pseudonym The Haxan Cloak. It was released on 15 April 2013 through Tri Angle. It received universal acclaim from critics.
Excavation is The Haxan Cloak's second studio album, following The Haxan Cloak (2011). As for the album's concept, Bobby Krlic said, "The first record was about a person's decline towards death, so this one's about the journey he takes afterwards." The album is mastered by Matt Colton. The album's cover art features a photograph taken by Cody Cobb.
Excavation was released on 15 April 2013 internationally and 30 April 2013 in the United States through Tri Angle. Bobby Krlic later built his home studio in Los Angeles, regained the master tapes to his work from various record labels, and founded the record label Archaic Devices. The Haxan Cloak and Excavation were both reissued on 24 November 2023 through Archaic Devices.
Philip James de Vries of Exclaim! called the album "a brilliant piece of work, one best enjoyed actively with a premium set of headphones, in solitude." Nick Neyland of Pitchfork stated, "It's not aesthetically similar to Scott Walker's later works, but it similarly highlights how certain music specifically needs the right time, place, and mood to function." Brandon Bussolini of XLR8R commented that "Excavation treads, for the most part, the line between electro-acoustic experimentation for its own sake and more familiar shapes, although the beats remain too diffuse to put a label on."
Credits adapted from liner notes.