{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Expanding Anyway | type = Album | artist = Morning Teleportation | cover = Expandinganyway.jpg | alt = | released = March 8, 2011 | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = Psychedelic, Electro, Roots | length = 58:12 | label = Glacial Pace Recordings<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://store.glacialpace.com/products/morning-teleportation-expanding-anyway|title=Morning Teleportation - Expanding Anyway|website=Glacial Pace Recordings}}</ref> | producer = Isaac Brock<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relix.com/articles/detail/group_at_work_morning_teleportation/|title=Group At Work: Morning Teleportation|date=August 16, 2017|website=Relix Media}}</ref> | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = ''Consequence of Sound'' |rev1score = C−<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://consequence.net/2011/04/album-review-morning-teleportation-expanding-anyway/|title=Album Review: Morning Teleportation - Expanding Anyway|date=April 18, 2011}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Willamette Week'' |rev2score = {{Rating|4|5}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://wweek.com/portland/article-17157-album_review_morning.html |title=Willamette Week review |access-date=2011-05-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120601034443/http://wweek.com/portland/article-17157-album_review_morning.html |archive-date=2012-06-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> |rev3 = |rev3score = }}
'''''Expanding Anyway''''' is the debut full-length album by psychedelic rock band Morning Teleportation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/best-of-whats-next-morning-teleportation/|title=Best of What's Next: Morning Teleportation|date=August 15, 2012|website=pastemagazine.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/morning-teleportation-on-letterman-44439/|title=Morning Teleportation on 'Letterman'|work=Rolling Stone|date=May 5, 2011}}</ref> The album was released on Glacial Pace Recordings on March 8, 2011.
==Critical reception== ''Spin'' wrote that the band's "energy can be so overpowering that it takes a minute to notice the adeptness of the musicianship — [frontman Tiger] Merritt’s exciting prog guitar riffs make the nine-minute 'Wholehearted Drifting Sense of Inertia' feel too short."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.spin.com/2011/03/morning-teleportation-expanding-anyway-glacial-pace/|title=Morning Teleportation, ‘Expanding Anyway’ (Glacial Pace)|date=March 8, 2011|website=Spin}}</ref> NPR called the album "a raw and tantalizing piece of work."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523965833/songs-we-love-morning-teleportation-re-wiring-easily|title=Watch Morning Teleportation's 360˚ Video For 'Re-wiring Easily'|website=NPR.org}}</ref> ''PopMatters'' wrote that Morning Teleportation's "sloppy, anything-goes aesthetic makes their debut album an unhinged ball of fun."<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.popmatters.com/140051-morning-teleportation-expanding-anyway-2496044953.html|title=Morning Teleportation: Expanding Anyway|date=June 15, 2011|website=PopMatters}}</ref>
==Track listing== {{track listing | title1 = Boom Puma | length1 = 5:26 | title2 = Eyes The Same | length2 = 3:13 | title3 = Snow Frog Vs. Motor Cobra | length3 = 5:52 | title4 = Expanding Anyway | length4 = 3:42 | title5 = Crystalline | length5 = 5:12 | title6 = Daydream Electric Storm | length6 = 2:15 | title7 = Whole Hearted Drifting Sense Of Inertia | length7 = 9:01 | title8 = Just A Figment | length8 = 6:28 | title9 = Foreign Planes | length9 = 4:42 | title10 = Coldweather Sunshine | length10 = 1:39 | title11 = Banjo Disco | length11 = 4:26 | title12 = Treble Chair | length12 = 6:25 }}
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