Having met in 2004 as art students at Chicago's Columbia College, MAPS & ATLASES' initial output (a 2006 EP titled Tree, Swallows, Houses) showcased their astute technical abilities and deft musicality, changing rhythms and tearing across guitar fret boards at breakneck speed. Their follow-up EP (2008's You and Me and the Mountain) demonstrated a desire for a more organic (but no less eccentric) pop-orientated course that retains the mathematical precision of their first set of recordings, but allowed for more compositional virtuosity than instrumental. It is this path that has led them to forthcoming debut full-length Perch Patchwork; a densely textured, exhilarating body of work that sees the band creating intricacies in songwriting, in lush brass and string arrangements rather than in lightning-fast guitar lines - resulting in a gorgeous, complex, slightly skewed take on pop music.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Will
2. The Charm
3. Living Decorations
4. Solid Ground
5. Is
6. Israeli Caves
7. Banished Be Cavalier
8. Carrying The Wet Wood
9. Pigeon
10. If This Is
11. Was
12. Perch Patchwork