Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum CD. Hailing from Pennsylvania, this 5 piece band grew up watching “321 Contact” and “The Letter People Show,” and they say their primary focus is turning their childhood memories into songs, and they feel much more at home playing music in the woods or an old barn than a club. DANDELION GUM is a mindbending record of superb melodies, warped and woozy vintage synths, and vocoder vocals. Add the Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum CD to your collection now.
Maps - We Can Create CD, created on a 16-track recorder in a bedroom over the course of about four years, the debut full-lenth album from Northampton, England's MAPS (a.k.a. a really nice bloke named James Chapman) is definitely the best thing I've heard this year, and quite probably the best thing I've heard in about five years. Add to that the fact that it's on one of my favorite labels (Mute), co-produced by Valgeir Sigurosson and mixed by Ken Thomas (of Sigur Ros fame), and you've died and gone to Shoegazer Heaven. Plus, for you nerds out there, the cover art is not just your average black and white art photograph. MAPS' graphic artist, Ben Brown explains, "The idea was we wanted to make the artwork for the album create itself, so if one day we fired it into space and it landed on the moon then someone could pick it up, decipher it and remake the album. Simple really. The first thing we needed to do was to find away to take data from the music and turn that into something that looked organic, interesting and beautiful. After about 2 weeks we found a program called Walrus that allowed us to do exactly that. So, we stripped data from the album, fed it into Walrus, and converted it into huge decision tree diagrams. Once we had created the Walrus model, we then rebuilt it in 3DStudio Max on a hired Supercomputer, then we rendered and lit the huge structure that was around 5 million faces. This part of the project took about 3 months as each tiny tweak of the camera meant the computer re-rendering everything. When we had great looking shots of each song's structure we took those renders into Photoshop for some final work on the lighting and atmosphere." Trust us you will like the Maps - We Can Create CD so buy a copy now.
Junior Boys - So This is Goodbye (Special Edition) CD. The special edition of the Junior Boys' highly acclaimed sophomore album contains a bonus disc of distinction: the only physical release of their 4-song iTunes studio session from last fall's tour, plus remixes from Carl Craig, Hot Chip, Tensnake, Morgan Geist, Alex Smoke, Kode 9, and Marsen Jules. So This is Goodbye Limited edition 2 CD set, Get it now.
The Bravery's 2005 self-titled debut was easy to miss in the wake of a massive onslaught of new wave inspired bands like Interpol, Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand and the like. However, if you did happen to listen, it turned out that it contained some really great songwriting and well-crafted tunes. THE SUN AND THE MOON adds to the breadth of their style a bit, including a couple of harder rocking, guitar-driven songs, as well as a ballad. And, best of all, they have used the number one ingredient for an infectious pop song - whistling! Buy the CD now and we'll give you a free bonus remix CD while supplies last.
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