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Maps
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Out of 8 votes - Similar Artists: Slowdive, Pschadelic Furs, Ride
Out of 8 votes
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- Location: United States
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Art-Rock/Experimental
Editor's review
The heartsick soundscaping of Sigur Ros and (in a different manner) the Postal Service has been one of indie music's best recent ideas--it's electro-cool with a soul. That field gets some strong new originals from Northamptonshire's James Chapman, whose snippetry is ambitious and lovely.
Biography
A bedroom genius in the truest of senses, 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 16 track recorder in his Northamptonshire bedroom. The results were subsequently co-produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bjork) and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Hope Of The States).
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 My Bloody Valentine, We Can Create is a work of heart stopping extremes.
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