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   IndieLondon
MAPS - We Can Create reviewEVERY once in a while an album comes along that completely blows you away from right out of the blue. Maps’ We Can Create is one of those albums.

Created by “bedroom genius” James Chapman, the album is an other-worldly gem that’s by turns laidback and bewitching, yet commercial enough to appeal to mainstream pop culture....full text

   Guardian
The 1980s goths Bauhaus put Northampton on the music map, but the town has had little to export since then. James Chapman, aka Maps, looks set to change that. Conjured up in his bedroom following bouts of depression, his debut album's dreamlike, uplifting quality suggests it was informed by mood swings and moments of creative revelation - "These songs they seem to write themselves." Otherwise rooted in Chapman's epiphany hearing late 80s sonic explorers My Bloody Valentine and Spacemen 3, his electronic-based songs have a naive wonderment reminiscent of the Flaming Lips and the Chills....full text

   Times Online
Despite the name, Maps is a one-man operation, the pseudonym of the Northamptonshire native James Chapman. Eschewing computers, he records straight onto a 16-track tape machine in his (presumably large) bedroom, creating lush, almost oppressive soundscapes that evoke both the glory days of shoegazing and contemporary American romantics in the vein of Postal Service....full text

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