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City Vs Country

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The Mobius Band seem quite comfortable stradding the indie rock and electronic worlds. Thus, on their CITY VS COUNTRY EP, they're free to wander in from their guitar-based session into the programming room and plug in the drum machines. With the strumming in synch with the beats on "Starts Off with a Bang," it's more of a pop than a bang. The near IDM strains of the title track fall under sway of the guitar lines and actual drumming so that the intro is almost forgotten. But the sadness of "I Had a Very Good Year" is almost haunting in its simplicity.

It's interesting to consider The Mobius Band's first three me P's El P's hell, there slices of the Northeast, lets call it what they are...taken as one these little ditties are an amalgumation of influences as random as is Western, MA. Truly the culmination of experimentation and growth, "City vs Country" truly finds the band being torn in varrying degrees of happentuity. Adulthood? Check. Friends needing rehabilitation? Check. Providing a turrent of bleeps and snarling blops to accompany said throngs of adulthood in the early 00's? Soft and melodic, "City vs Country" is again a mini-album, perfect in its productivity and minimal in its aims. The subleties lay in its foundations and corners, and finding the girth of intellectual ruminations hung like a wind chime made out of sporks, The Mobius Band traverses further into itself without ever sounding bland. There most coehesive of early considerations, "City vs Country" is again a dose best served whole...without the need for pompacity or a finger down ones throat. Relax kids, its life as best described and felt in the cold winters of the north.

I have had this album for a while now and in no way has it lost its charm. Multiply is one of the top songs played on my itunes list.