Drastic Cinematic is an LP by the American synthpop/electropop band Hyperbubble from German label Pure Pop For Now People. Guest vocals on the title track were provided by Aidan Casserly of Empire State Human, with whom the band would later work on the single, "Aidan Casserly Vs. Hyperbubble". The song "Geometry" included vocals by Manda Rin of the Scottish bands Bis and Data Panik as well as sampled sounds from her cat, Akiko. The song was later reprised in a second collaboration with the singer on the EP Hyperbubble + Manda Rin. Release history The album was released twice. It debuted in Europe and North America on April 2, 2011 as an edition of 100 copies with handmade covers. A CD/MP3 reissue of this limited edition vinyl album, Drastic Cinematic – Director's Cut, debuted on July 1, 2011 through Bubblegum. The reissue shared the same front cover and added three remixes by I European, Haberdashery and Mark Towns, who previously worked on Hits! The Very Best of Erasure. The album included "Welcome To Infinity Pt. 1" and "Pt. 2". An earlier upbeat and poppy version "Welcome to Infinity (Singles Only Mix)" was released earlier in the year as a single by UK Bubblegum Records. The "B" side included the reissue's less frenetic I European mix. The original track was later added to the band's 2017 compilation album, Pretty Plastic with a slight parenthetical change to the title – "(Singles Club Mix)". The group released a music video for the single "Explosive" on Mar 21, 2013. The video directed by Hyperbubble member Jeff DeCuir was shot on location at Portmeiron in Wales as an homage to the TV series, The Prisoner. The first track on the album, "Vox Noir", was used in the soundtrack for a 2012 stop-motion film by Sabra Booth. Critical reception With Drastic Cinematic, Hyperbubble produced what was variously dubbed a tribute to soundtrack composers of the '70s and '80s, "a film-noir/futuristic soundtrack," and "a soundtrack for an imaginary Jean-Luc Goddard [sic] film" – the French director to whom the CD version is dedicated. A reviewer for ReGen magazine described the music as "evocative of ever changing tensions in its fictional narrative backbone... [that] unlike classic electronic acts occupied with film scores like Tangerine Dream, ...is not constrained by the necessity to remain committed to one mood or a singular theme." The compositions included cameo vocals "with distinctive