Special Cases (album)

[1] The album was written between 2011 and 2012 with recording from 2012 to 2013 by musician and Föllakzoid founder Juan Pablo Rodríguez[2] as a solo project to further explore synthesizers and space as an aesthetic and concept.

After its initial 2014 cassette tape release by ETCS Records, the debut album of Special Cases accrued an underground cult audience.

In 2020 when the album was pressed on vinyl by Weisskalt, it received critical acclaim with respected publications such as The Quietus highlighting the relevance of Rodríguez's songwriting and performance in contemporary cosmic and psychedelic music alongside his contributions to the legacy building of Föllakzoid.

"[1] The album was also reviewed by Stephen Lawrie of The Telescopes who considered the music to be like, "a one man rave on a lone trip to beyond, returning from his voyage to the here and now with a body of work reaching celestial highs from the coral below.

"[6] The record was also particularly popular with ongoing listeners of neo psychedelia and space rock, with The Devil's Lexicon's Dave Lang praising the music and vinyl manufacturing, "it has elements of metronomic krautrock mixed with fuzzy shoegaze, minimal technoid pulses and even widescreen festival space-rock of the F/i/Hawkwind variety, and while these may all be well-worn musical tropes in the here and now, the execution, track syncing, packaging and overall presentation of the material is note-perfect.