Maps, aka James Chapman, has announced details of the release of his debut album. The 11-track long player, We Can Create, is released through Mute Records on May 14th 2007. A bedroom genius in the truest of senses, the other-worldly atmospherics of Maps are even more amazing for the fact he 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.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. SO LOW SO HIGH
2. YOU DON'T KNOW HER NAME
3. ELOUISE
4. IT WILL FIND YOU
5. GLORY VERSE
6. LIQUID SUGAR
7. TO THE SKY
8. BACK + FORTH
9. LOST MY SOUL
10. DON'T FEAR
11. WHEN YOU LEAVE