Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Maps - We Can Create (2007)

A hugely ambitious, widescreen and epic record that recalls everything from the far away electronics of Basic Channel and Carl Craig, through the skewed songwriting of Postal Service, Flaming Lips and Grandaddy to the euphoric sound-scapes of Sigur Ros and Death In Vegas, "We Can Create" is a work of heart stopping extremes.
The other-worldly atmospherics of "Maps" are even more amazing for the fact that James Chapman recorded the whole album without computers, preferring the painstaking process of splicing sounds together on his battered album recorder in his Northamptonshire bedroom.
A trip between what's best of Indie-Rock, one of the best albuns this year in this music style, remembering "Electric President" in their debut album.

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