The clouds break abruptly in the third track. A surprisingly conventional and aggressive backbeat is outlined with a skeletal bassline, harkening back to "Laughing Quarter" in tone, although the tempo is slower and more deliberate. At the three-minute mark, the drums drop out, replaced by a sparse scurrying pattern and a quivering melodic figure similar to the strings on "Eidetic Casein."

What makes this track so unique is that it's almost an anachromism. It comes close to being, well, standard, and although it's adorned with the same subsurface interference as the rest of the record, it seems to be referencing their earlier, pre Lp5 material. Unlike "IV VV IV VV VII," it has a clear direction, and it follows their typical A-B-Coda structural model straight into their familiar drumless fade-out for the last minute.

"Tapr" is another transition piece. A patter of backmasked percussion mingles with a vague pieces of a drum loop, while reverb-drenched string and organ samples flutter about like random frames cut from a film. Like "IV VV IV VV VII," it has no clear direction, yet it's somehow engaging in and of itself, and it serves the funtction of softening the palette between the harshness of "6IE.CR" and the deceptive serenity of "Surripere."