***Chicago's taking-it-to-the-hole rockers US MAPLE return from their sojourn exploring the Earth's lonely places, and deliver their fifth album in a dandy eight-year career. Eleven tracks of blues burnout, tuffed up with power chords, broke-neck rock'n'roll, swells of passion, and soul-fired vocal croons, moans, and swoons.
LP $30.50
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CD $13.75
11/11/2003
***It’s now 20 years since U.S. MAPLE and Talker were sent to the Drag City office. Their third album took the egretions and abrasions of their early music to a new height of quiet horror, their contribution to the summer of ’99—a hot, trying season, one that won’t soon be forgotten. Out of print on vinyl since 2008. Recorded by MARTIN BISI and produced by MICHAEL GIRA at Bisi Studios. “…one of the most obliquely beautiful releases... evasive, creepy, engrossing, and lovely... No one sounds quite like U.S. Maple, and that’s the greatest compliment you can pay a band these days.”— AV Club, 2002
LP $24.95
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