Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)

Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones) is the fourth studio album by American progressive metal band Intronaut. It was released on 18 March 2013 in Europe and 19 March 2013 in North America on Century Media Records, which also released their previous two albums Prehistoricisms and Valley of Smoke.

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	81/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
Alternative Press	[2]
Blabbermouth	[3]
Decibel Magazine	[4]
Exclaim!	[5]
Revolver	[6]
Sputnikmusic	3.3/5[7]

Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones)
Studio album by Intronaut
Released	18 March 2013 (Europe) March 19, 2013 (North America)
Genre	Progressive metal, post-metal
Length	57:17
Label	Century Media
Intronaut chronology
Valley of Smoke (2010) Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words with Tones) (2013) The Direction of Last Things (2015)

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Killing Birds with Stones"	8:02
2.	"The Welding"	6:00
3.	"Steps"	5:43
4.	"A Sore Sight for Eyes"	5:30
5.	"Milk Leg"	6:46
6.	"Harmonomicon"	6:31
7.	"Eventual"	6:44
8.	"Blood from a Stone"	3:04
9.	"The Way Down"	8:57

Personnel

Intronaut

• Sacha Dunable – guitar, vocals
• Dave Timnick – guitar, vocals
• Danny Walker – drums
• Joe Lester – bass

Production

• John Haddad - recording engineer for drums
• Derek Donley - recording engineer for guitars, bass, and vocals
• Josh Newell - mixer
• Paul Logus - master
• David D'Andrea - layout

Release

The album is available as a digital download, CD and 12 inch double LP. The track "Milk Leg" premiered on Invisible Oranges on 29 January 2013^[8] and a video debuted on 5 February 2013.^[9] On 15 February 2013, "The Welding" was premiered on Pitchfork.^[10] On 1 March 2013, "The Way Down" premiered on the German music site, Visions.de.^[11]