''Andexelt'' is the eighth album by the Finnish

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. It was released in 1999 by Metamorphos, and re-issued the following year by tUMULt with an extra track.

Critical reception

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's Brian Way called ''Andexelt'' "the most linear and rewarding of all of Circle's vast catalog." Way added that the band's sound on the album comes closer "to American retro-futurists like Trans Am, the Octopus Project, and Six Finger Satellite than their usual Krautrock forebears." Paul Cooper of

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remarked that the album "surpasses Brainticket's ''Adventure'', and equals Can's ''Future Days'' in loaded grace." A review of the album in a 2001 issue of ''

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'' said with "the seductive formulae of complex 4/4 rhythm clusters and low slung basslmes, it's an album of Arctic atmospheres, highlighted by the near Thomas Kbner-like frigidity of 'Fnitalan Mashick'".

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