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Chicago's quartet Maps & Atlases (vocalist Dave Davison, guitarist Erin Elders, bassist Shiraz Dada and drummer Chris Hainey) debuted with the
EPs Tree Swallows Houses (Sargent House, 2006) and
You and Me and the Mountain (2008), whose skewed polyrhythmic songs
evoked a cross between King Crimson and
Pere Ubu.
Their album Perch Patchwork (Barsuk, 2010) veered towards a poppier sound with melodic songs that are slightly off-center like
Living Decoration and Solid Ground, with even detours into
folk-rock (Israeli Caves, somewhere between
R.E.M. and
Fairport Convention)
and
Art Bears-esque
prog-rock
(Perch Patchwork).
But it's hard to salvage something from Beware and Be Grateful (2012),
which is neither adventurous nor particularly melodic. The feverish
Bugs maybe.
Lightlessness Is Nothing New (2018) contains more danceable songs
like Fog and the Fall.
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