Maps - We Can Create

Truly, Maps is your guide for the most mercurially ace trip of the year.

Posted Sunday, 3 June 2007 in

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Maps - We Can Create

Rating: 8

If you'd told any indie kid back in 91 that Ian Brown, Kevin Shields and Andrew Weatherall had recorded together, they'd have exploded with joy; just because an album that sounds like that hasn't emerged 'til 07 shouldn't diminish its brilliance. James Chapman – for Maps is he – starts well enough, all broken noises and blissed-out musery, but then the head-swallowing whoosh fiend that is 'It Will Find You' takes this to another league altogether. Later, 'Liquid Sugar' will recall a shamanaic 'Mogwai Fear Satan' with breakbeats, 'Back + Forth' will be the sort of avant-burble that coloured every Orbital album, and 'Don't Fear' will provoke lysergic euphoria at its most wrong-footing. Truly, Maps is your guide for the most mercurially ace trip of the year.

Iain Moffat

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