According to Tim himself:
"We put the mastering folks through a minor hell, trying to get the closing second of the album to pair up seamlessly with the opening track, again, to create the loop, to feel as though the album has no beginning or end (but you gotta play it on repeat!). We also had the grand plan of creating one of those closed threads at the end of the vinyl version, so that the final rhythm of the song would play on indefinitely. Alas, we didn’t do sufficient planning in advance, the measures of the song didn’t line up properly with the length of the proposed closed thread."
According to Tim himself: "We put the mastering folks through a minor hell, trying to get the closing second of the album to pair up seamlessly with the opening track, again, to create the loop, to feel as though the album has no beginning or end (but you gotta play it on repeat!). We also had the grand plan of creating one of those closed threads at the end of the vinyl version, so that the final rhythm of the song would play on indefinitely. Alas, we didn’t do sufficient planning in advance, the measures of the song didn’t line up properly with the length of the proposed closed thread."