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Originally going under the name Short Break Operator, Maps is essentially Northampton U.K. sound sculptor James Chapman, who combines indie electronic sounds with atmospheric, sleepy rock that owes as much to Spiritualized and My Bloody Valentine as it does to Four Tet and Boards of Canada. Chapman has released a few EPs, including Start Something via Last Space Recordings in 2006, and is assisted… Read more in Amazon's Maps Store

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  • Audio CD (June 19, 2007)
  • Original Release Date: June 19, 2007
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mute U.S.
  • ASIN: B000PKG7MU
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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MAPS is Northampton, U.K. wunderkind, James Chapman. A mix of electronics, pop and psychedelia, his sound can be found in the scale and ambition of Spiritualized, in the single-mindedness of My Bloody Valentine, in the vibes and good times of the Chemical Brothers and in the melodies of The Byrds.

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Recorded on a 16-track in James Chapman's tiny bedroom, MAPS' debut album WE CAN CREATE is a hugely ambitious, widescreen and epic record that recalls everything from far away electronics and skewed songwriting to euphoric sound-scapes. A work of heartstopping extremes, the album's eleven tracks run the full length of the transmission spectrum, from dreamy space-rock to folksy, downtempo whisperings and clattering, thudding noise- pop. 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.
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4.0 out of 5 stars What do British indie stars do in their bedrooms?, July 19, 2007
By CJ Scuffins (Dublin, Ireland) - See all my reviews
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Sleep, shag, and make Mercury Prize-nominated albums, that's what. James Chapman aka Maps made the bulk of his aptly-titled debut LP We Can Create on an old 16-track recorder squeezed into his flat in Northampton, England. That's right, with noisy old instruments and ne'er a computer in sight. The neighbors must've kicked up murder.

What type of music had the Jones's banging on the wall? An updated version of "shoegaze", don't you know. That bookish older brother of a genre from the early 90s that championed droning guitars, whispery voices, trippy lyrics, and floppy fringes.

Shoegaze strove to create a specific feeling. Namely, that of being off your head on drugs. In a quiet, let's-not-attract-the-barman's-attention kind of way.

Chief purveyors of this performance-enhanced music in the 90s were My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Chapterhouse, and Chapman's closest descendent Spacemen 3. They followed in the footsteps of the world's first shoegazer, John Lennon. He tried his damndest to replicate an acid trip with Tomorrow Never Knows. The result was out of this world. And he had a floppy fringe.

Chapman (no relation to Mark) has given us Shoegaze 3.0. A refit that maintains the genre's mood of low-key psychedelia. He's kept the breathy vocals, angelic aahs, and kiss-the-sky mantras. But the droning guitars are gone. Replaced by a universe of atmospheric electronics, including buzzing synths, trip-hop drums, and the odd Namlook-esque space bleep. In other words, ShoeRave.

Album centrepoint To The Sky winds into being like a musical jewellery box. Then the space-age beats kick in, and we're through the bedroom window off towards the clouds, where an ethereal voice drones dreamily, "I can sing it to the sky/ But there's a risk it won't reply/ If I could change it man I would/ And I won't screw it up this time". Words that seem meaningful but make no rational sense. Perfect.

The euphoric outros of Back & Forth and Eloise are also highlights. Non-stoned listeners will feel like they're pepped up on goofballs. Stoned listeners may have to be scraped off the ceiling.

Every respectable drug-related album needs a microdot of mysticism. On the stately Glory Verse Chapman gets transcendent while ruminating over his gift for music. "These sounds will never leave you/will be there to receive you/these songs, they seem to write themselves."

More prosaically I love how Chapman drawls a colloquial "yerrr" for "yes" on this and other songs. It suggests that when not writing music that reaches for the sky, James Chapman is very down to earth. Should serve him well at awards ceremonies.

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M83 , Stars, Low, Spiritualized, Spaceman 3, Sigur Ros, Chapterhouse, Slowdive, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Flying Saucer Attack, and Kid-A era Radiohead.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars I love the atmosphere this CD creates, August 1, 2007
By J. Miller "a_tech_guy" (Walkersville, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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I also think this is one of the best CDs of 2007. If you are looking for a dreaming, satisfying, atmospheric trip this CD is for you. I am a big fan. They remind me a little of Low. But, I think Maps are more assessable. I enjoyed this CD from the first song and it gets better after each play. The engineer did a good job also sequencing the songs onto the CD so that the tracks flow well. I heard this was done from a 16 track in the guys bedroom. Great Indie music. This is the type of CD Maps will make only once. You don't want to miss a minute of it. Influences: Damien Rice, Sigur Ros, and Interpol.

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Elousie
It will Find You
So Low, So High
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Chill, atmospheric, fun, December 26, 2007
I recently came across Maps' myspace and was instantly hooked after hearing a few of their songs. I purchased the CD with the hope that there would be a few good songs, and I was pleasantly surprised that every track on this CD is definitely worth listening too. This music is great for long drives, studying at home, or just hanging out chillin. Its the kind of music that you can't help but smile as you listen too it. The songs are uplifting and fun, and never get tired.

I was going to try and recommend some best tracks from this CD, but every song is so damn good that its almost impossible to single out only a few. If I had to pick the best, it would be "So Low, So High", "You Don't Know Her Name", "Glory Verse", "Liquid Sugar" and "Back and Forth". But really you could listen to this CD from beginning to end and be very entertained.
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2.0 out of 5 stars Maps
Even though I listened so many times and tried to be fair as possible, I must say that album has a good start but bad finish. Monotone throughout the album.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
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Best album of the year. The songs have an ethereal, dreamlike quality, while at the same time being catchy and upbeat. This is something most artists never achieve.
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