''I.E.M. Have Come for Your Children'' is the third and final studio album from

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's side project,

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. It was released on CD in 2001 on the

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label. Tracks 1-5 use improvisations from 1999 as source material, heavily reconstructed and overdubbed in the studio in August 2001 while track 6 is a piece for hammered dulcimer and mellotron choir. An excerpt of track 1 appeared on the previous album, '' Arcadia Son'', as the title track. A double

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edition, released by the Gates of Dawn record label in 2003, included an additional track prior to track 5 that opens side D. This was later included on the ''Complete I.E.M.''

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CD version of the '' An Escalator to Christmas'' EP titled after this album.

Track listing

All tracks written by Steven Wilson. #"Untitled 1" – 35:37 #"Untitled 2" – 8:02 #"Untitled 3" – 7:10 #"Untitled 4" – 12:02 #"Untitled 5" – 5:29 #"Piece For Hammered Dulcimer And Mellotron Choir" - 4:31 #"I.E.M. Have Come for Your Children" - 8:11 (Vinyl version only bonus track)

References

2001 albums Incredible Expanding Mindfuck albums {{2001-rock-album-stub