How to Operate with a Blown Mind

How to Operate with a Blown Mind is the debut studio album by Lo Fidelity Allstars, released on Skint Records in 1998.

Critical reception

The Hartford Courant wrote that "there's something a little different about the Allstar approach, alternating the boomy, hooky dance tracks with spacy, equally melodic washes of instrumentals, over which are long, Beat poet-like rants." NME named How to Operate with a Blown Mind the 21st best album of 1998.

In a rundown of "intelligent big beat", Simon Reynolds called the album an "oxymoronic masterpiece of 'darkside big beat'."

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.

• The Wrekked Train – vocals
• The Albino Priest – turntables, sampler
• A One Man Crowd Called Gentile – bass guitar
• The Slammer – drums
• Sheriff John Stone – keyboards
• The Many Tentacles – keyboards, engineering
• Sean "The Bison" Phillips – guitar (on "I Used to Fall in Love")
• Lisa Millett – vocals (on "Vision Incision")
• Ben Mitchell – keyboards (on "Vision Incision")

Charts

References

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