What happens when a band of resolute perfectionists make their most accessible and upbeat rock album - a departure so startling, you almost want to call it "their pop album"? When Early Day Miners loosen up, it's almost a different band. The complex layers and atmospherics are still there, but front-and-center on The Treatment are insistent bass lines and straightforward melodies on multiple organs and guitars. One of the poppiest here, "So Slowly," manages to combine a buoyant Cure bass line, a wah-wah solo worthy of Robert Fripp and yet still conveys the lazy drift of summer. You can even hear an echo of "Sympathy For The Devil" on the album's centerpiece "How To Fall."

Track Listing
1. In The Fire
2. So Slowly
3. The Surface Of Things
4. Spaces
5. How To Fall
6. The Zip
7. Becloud
8. Silver Oath