Atlantis - The Day The Music Died

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5...according to our Phil on Wed 07 Dec, 2011.

In case you didn't know, and you probably didn't cos you're too busy enjoying life instead if obsessing about rampant musical nerdery, Atlantis is actually Tim from Maps & Diagrams doing a different thing. Here he leaves the world of ambience and glitchy, melodic electronica for some more synth based cosmic business. The Day The Music Died has a very futuristic feel to it and it's also otherworldly. In fact it sounds like it would soundtrack a bizarre undiscovered planet. Strange electronics, eerie space noises and cosmic synthy business are the order of the day here. It's kinda dark as well in places which just goes to show much of a disturbed individual Mr Diagram must be. The album is somewhere between the weirder end of the Ghost Box stuff and the more Kosmische stylings of Jurgen Muller. It's a thoroughly enjoyable listen from start to end! It looks lovely too, packaged in a hand stitched thing with a printed taggy thing on it. Words aren't my strong point...

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"The Day The Music Died" is the new album from Atlantis, this sonic expedition ventures into new, unchartered worlds which before have only been visualised by explorers and scientists alike. As on previous releases, Atlantis uses self-experimentation to conjure a vision of imagination and nostalgic intrigue. "The Day The Music Died" is limited to 100 copies for the world. It comes in printed hand-stitched recycled CD wallets with a die-cut inlay with string attachment for safe-keeping. Sealed in a resealable cellophane bag.

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