Maps
We Can Create

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Side 1
1.     So Low, So High
2.     You Don't Know Her Name
3.     Elouise
Side 2
1.     It Will Find You
2.     Glory Verse
3.     Liquid Sugar

Side 1
1.     To The Sky
2.     Back And Forth
3.     Lost My Soul
Side 2
1.     Don't Fear
2.     When You Leave


Maps, aka James Chapman, has announced details of the release of his debut album. The 11-track long player, We Can Create, is released through Mute Records on May 14th 2007.

The album will be preceded by a single, It Will Find You, on April 30th. Maps has previously released 3 much acclaimed 10” only singles, Start Something, Lost My Soul (which featured in the NME’s top 50 singles of ’06 chart) & Don’t Fear on his own Last Space Recordings.

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 on his battered 16 track recorder in his Northamptonshire bedroom. The results were subsequently co-produced by Valgeir Sigurdsson (Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Bjork) and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Ros, Hope Of The States).

A hugely ambitious, widescreen and epic record that recalls everything from the euphoric sound-scapes of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine, through the skewed songwriting of Postal Service, Flaming Lips and Grandaddy to far away electronica, We Can Create is a work of heart stopping extremes.