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Dead Cities is the city to Lifeforms' natural expanse. A variety of styles are present on the album, including their typical ambience, but also dark trip-hop grooves, glitchy IDM, drum'n'bass and even a modern-classical piece written with composer Max Richter. The piece, "Max", was named after him. The album is probably the band's darkest work. Samples, as ever, are from various sources, including Run DMC, Rebecca Caine, Ozric Tentacles, Ennio Morricone and Vangelis. Also present are the group's large pool of friends and co-workers, including Craig Armstrong, Richie Thomas, Philip Pin, Riz Maslen, Byron Con, Leon Mar and Simon Wells. Wells contribues the hidden track, "Dead Cities Reprise" under his Headstone Lane moniker, which he also used to record a mini-album for FSOL's EBV label. The artwork is more advanced than ever, and over the standard booklet there are the usual CG images and photographs, portraying, as ever, Vit, Shaueen and the Electronic Brain, as well as some hand drawings this time around.
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