AUS / NZ pressing with 2 bonus tracks

The songwriting & recording project of Michael Benjamin Lerner (drums, guitar & vocals), this debut album has DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE’s CHRIS WALLA acting as producer, engineer & mixer. To capture spontaneity and enthusiasm the two put one complete song to tape each day.

Evoking everyone from THE SHINS, THE DECEMBERISTS, SLOAN, BIG STAR, THE POSIES, TEENAGE FANCLUB, MATTHEW SWEET and WEEZER ‘Telekinesis’ manages to isolate the bests bits of the indie-pop genome and engineer a unique and flawless hybrid.

SPIN “...a one man power-pop wall of sound – but with no skinny-tie jerkiness. Just relaxing whoa-ohs for the soul.”
PREFIX 8.5/10 “This album, with all its unmoored, frenetic energy, is a fantastic pop album… Songs free of ego and artifice. Songs that fit into traditions but not trends. Songs that demand to be played over and over, in your car or at a party, as loud as you can crank 'em.”
POP MATTERS “imbued with the sort of breathless energy that many bands spend their entire careers trying to capture… sincere, intelligently constructed, often beautiful songs.”
AQUARIUM DRUNKARD “ already one of the best records going in 2009… channels the best of some seriously classic pop and rock while making it feel endlessly alive.”
PITCHFORK “Every song on the record feels instantly familiar, with easygoing power-pop hooks casually triggering positive responses… echoes feelings and sounds by The Shins, Fountains of Wayne, Sloan, Death Cab For Cutie, Superchunk, Matthew Sweet, and Teenage Fanclub without directly lifting from anyone in particular.”

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Rust
2. Coast Of Carolina
3. Tokyo
4. Look To The East
5. Awkward Kisser
6. Foreign Room
7. Great Lakes
8. Imaginary Friend
9. All Of A Sudden
10. Calling All Doctors
11. I Saw Lightning
12. Can't See Stars - Bonus Track
13. Creaking In The Floorboards - Bonus Track