People / Variables

VINYL FORMAT. Limited to 500 copies (400 black / 100 clear blue); comes with a digital download! Clean Equations is the Philadelphia, PA / New York, NY / Melbourne, AU based music collective fronted by lyricist / song writer /chemical engineer, Mike Nyhan. On the heels of their 2009 self-titled EP, Clean Equations has just completed their first full length album entitled People / Variables. The album features the usual cast of characters, along with a few new faces. Clean Equations are influenced by such diverse bands as Joy Division, Ariel Pink, Guided by Voices, the Bats, Grandaddy, Destroyer, Far, Ester Drang, Sufjan Stevens, the American Analog Set, the Eels, Suicide, Broken Social Scene, Les Savy Fav, the Walkmen, and the Dismemberment Plan. Their music has been favorably compared to early Death Cab for Cutie, Galaxie 500, and American Football with subtle hints of the Appleseed Cast and the Smashing Pumpkins.