We Can Create

Recorded on a 16-track in James Chapman's tiny bedroom, Map's debut album We Can Create is a hugely ambitious, widescreen and epic record that recalls everything from far away electronics and skewed songwriting to euphoric sound-scapes. A work of heart-stopping extremes, the album's eleven tracks run the full length of the transmission spectrum, from dreamy space-rock to folksy, down-tempo whisperings and clattering, thudding noise- pop. 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.