{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Experiment Below | type = studio | artist = Hovercraft | cover = HovercraftExperimentBelowCD.JPG | alt = | released = September 22, 1998 | recorded = 1998 | venue = | studio = | genre = Experimental rock | length = 45:36 | label = Blast First/Mute | producer = Hovercraft | prev_title = Akathisia | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = | next_year = }} {{Music ratings |rev1 = AllMusic |rev1score = {{Rating|3|5}}<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|title=allmusic ((( ''Experiment Below'' Review )))|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r377000|pure_url=yes}}|website=AllMusic|author=Kaufman, Jason|accessdate=May 20, 2009}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Pitchfork Media'' |rev2score = 5.8/10<ref>Fowler, Shan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20001212060800/http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/record-reviews/h/hovercraft/experiment-below.shtml "Hovercraft: ''Experiment Below''"]. Pitchfork Media. December 31, 1999. Retrieved on May 20, 2009.</ref> }} '''''Experiment Below''''' is the second and final studio album by the instrumental experimental rock group Hovercraft. It was released on September 22, 1998, through Blast First/Mute Records.
==Overview== In 1998, drummer Ric Peterson joined Hovercraft as "Dash 11". His much harder-hitting, more visceral style was the apparent catalyst in the band's shift from ethereal 15-minute songs to more concise, angular arrangements. The album's track "Epoxy" was premiered on Pearl Jam's ''Monkeywrench Radio'' broadcast, on January 31, 1998.<ref>[http://www.bradleycomer.com/hovercraft/albums-98.html "Experiment Below"]. Bradleycomer.com.</ref> One year in the making, ''Experiment Below'' was Hovercraft's final album.<ref name="frequency">[https://www.angelfire.com/sk/seattlebands/hovercraftart.html "Hovercraft"]. ''Frequency''. 1997.</ref> Jason Kaufman of Allmusic said, "This is challenging music that certainly has its rewards for those patient enough to hang around."<ref name="allmusic"/>
==Track listing== {{track listing | collapsed = | headline = | title1 = Anthropod | length1 = 6:06 | title2 = Phantom Limb | length2 = 9:58 | title3 = Transmitter Down | length3 = 10:07 | title4 = Endoradiosonde | length4 = 6:52 | title5 = Benzedrine | length5 = 1:50 | title6 = Wire Trace | length6 = 5:37 | title7 = Epoxy | length7 = 5:02 }}
==Personnel== ;Hovercraft *Campbell 2000 – guitar *Dash 11 – drums *Sadie 7 – bass guitar
;Production *S. Hess – orange sphere photo *Hovercraft – production *Aaron Warner – assistant engineering
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