These two re-issues are released everywhere today – Ltd Edition ‘We Can Create’ on green glass vinyl, and Ltd Edition ‘Turning The Mind’ on orange vinyl. I know I’m biased but they are rather beautiful 🙂
You can pick them up here: https://mutebank.co.uk/collections/maps
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We Can Create
Catalogue Number: LSTUMM281
Release Date: 23rd August 2019
- Special Edition Vinyl Reissue
- Limited to 1000 Copies on 70’s style green glass coloured Vinyl
- Double Vinyl
- Etching on Side D
A MERCURY MUSIC PRIZE ALBUM OF THE YEAR NOMINEE 2007
A hugely ambitious, widescreen and epic record that recalls everything from the far away electronics of Basic Channel and Carl Craig, through the skewed songwriting of Postal Service, Flaming Lips and Grandaddy to the euphoric sound-scapes of Sigur Ros and My Bloody Valentine, We Can Create is a work of heart stopping extremes.
The album was recorded without computers, preferring the painstaking process of splicing sounds together on MAPS’ 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). The critically acclaimed album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2007.
Maps has remixed Depeche Mode, Public Service Broadcasting, Susanne Sundfør, Moby, C Duncan, M83 and more.
This is a limited edition re-press of the album on green vinyl.
Released as part of the MUTE 4.0 (178>TOMORROW) series.
“Gorgeous… really special” Q MAGAZINE
“A work of bedazzling wonder.” WORD MAGAZINE
“A joy from start to finish.” NME
“Terrific… more resplendent with each listen.” THE GUARDIAN
“A very impressive debut.” THE INDEPENDENT 12 MAY 2007
“Some of the sweetest, darkest, most heart-meltingly beautiful melodies you will ever hear”. GUARDIAN GUIDE
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Turning The Mind
Catalogue Number: STUMM298
Release Date: 23rd August 2019
- Special Edition Vinyl Reissue
- Limited to 500 Copies on MUTE4.0 Orange Vinyl
- Double Vinyl
- Etching on Side D
Turning The Mind, recorded with Tim Holmes (Death in Vegas) at the Contino Rooms in London, is Maps’ second album from 2009 and followed the release of Maps’ Mercury Prize shortlisted debut We Can Create in 2007. Includes the tracks ‘I Dream of Crystal’, ‘Die Happy, Die Smiling’ and ‘Valium In The Sunshine’.
“The tracks for this album never seemed to stop flowing from the day I began working on them, it is a true statement of Maps’ music at this precise moment.” James Chapman aka Maps in 2009.
Maps has remixed Depeche Mode, Public Service Broadcasting, Susanne Sundfør, Moby, C Duncan, M83 and more.
This is a limited edition re-press of the album on orange vinyl as part of the MUTE 40 (1978>Tomorrow) series of releases.
“A masterpiece that stands with the best” 4/5 OBSERVER MUSIC MONTHLY
“Kaleidoscopic, vivid, sensual and spangled up to the eyeballs” WORD MAGAZINE
“Bordering on genius” 9/10 CLASH SEPT
“A complex and intriguing record you’ll want to keep coming back to” INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
“A Death In Vegas-aided electro stormer” NME
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