Beware and Be Grateful, by Maps & Atlases

Beware and Be Grateful

by Maps & Atlases

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1.	Old & Grey 05:44	buy track
2.	Fever 05:05	buy track
3.	Winter 04:32	buy track
4.	Remote & Dark Years 02:49	buy track
5.	Silver Self 06:31	buy track
6.	Vampires 02:43	buy track
7.	Be Three Years Old 03:08	buy track
8.	Bugs 03:11	buy track
9.	Old Ash 05:05	buy track
10.	Important 03:56	buy track

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Formed in 2004, the technical ability and deft musicality displayed in the Chicago quartet’s early EP releases saw Maps & Atlases labelled with a ‘math-rock’/ ‘post-rock’ tag, but the band have consistently defied easy categorization - perhaps a factor in engendering a fiercely loyal fanbase. Beware and Be Grateful - recorded last year in a series of week-long sessions at Omaha’s ARC Studios with producer Jason Cupp (The Elected, Nurses, Good Old War) - continues their steady migration into pop territory.

Explains lead singer David Davison “The process was somewhat of a continuation of what we were doing with Perch Patchwork but I think that we tried extra hard to pay attention to the instincts of each song. We tried to let them unfold themselves and see what each song was doing and then run with that. I think we also embraced a sense of looseness with these songs. We let them run wild a little instead of trying to tie them up nicely.”

And so this non-proscriptive, athletic approach informs Beware and Be Grateful, the experimentation encompassing mellifluous harmonies, percolating rhythms and even – gasp - a full-on guitar solo on album centerpiece ‘Silver Self’. Songs like ‘Remote And Dark Years’ and ‘Fever’ are gloriously fluid, but the instinct for tight kinetic rhythms never obstuficates the impulse toward catchy, asymmetrical pop. Self-assured and astonishingly ambitious, Beware and Be Grateful marks Maps & Atlases’ most fully realized collection to date.

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released April 16, 2012

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