People keep calling these guys a math rock band, but the connection between the genre label and their actual sound is tenuous, at best. The confusion is easy to understand though, there is a complexity throughout the tunes, and the arrangements are both delicate and compelling, there’s notes of neo-folk and psych, as well as being at times a little experimental, but at the end of the day, it really does all come together within a definate pop package. Maps & Atlases are a progressive pop band if nothing else, putting them in the same vein as classic bands such as King Crimson or Peter Gabriel’s Genesis. Which is a very good and worthwhile thing. to work at. Here’s a track:
With the new album from Maps & Atlases, Perch Patchwork, in stores in the arse end of June just gone, you can expect that when they hit the stage at Festsaal we’re going to be treated to a demo of the new material. With a lot of bands that would be somewhere between a-bit-concerning to really-quite-shitty, after all, the phrase “their old stuff is better than the new stuff” isn’t a cliche for no reason, but the new album is good, really good, so you and I should be looking forward to it all. As if you weren’t already anyway.
