Album Description - 'A Thousand Plateaus'

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Over eight tracks, A Thousand Plateaus is intended to be big, unafraid, and urgent, as we hope the opening track,  “Even the Sun has a Dial”  makes clear with its strong drive, stressed guitar work, assertive vocals, and summoning drums.  In the second track, “Sabellian,” vocals rest into a more lyrical pace; however, by the chorus the song moves to make an equally assertive statement. Like “Sun Dial,” the song is played forward and with resolve. So too is “My Purchase,” the album’s forth track, which relentlessly pushes through its changes, in a style congruent with such 80s punk giants as Misfits. Contrastingly, “The Night will Open,” strives for a depth of sound that might harken back to the 4AD catalogue of the mid-80’s. Certainly the more tender of our influences may also be detected in  “I Have You.” The album’s sixth song, “Avivit,” calmly unfolds as if it were a story being told at the end of a bar, and hits in the middle like a shot of Spirytus, inserting a re-connection with the bigness of the album sound. The final song on the vinyl release, “November Snow,” is similar to the album’s opening number, but moves more evenly and methodically to its dark climax. “The Natural Lawbreakers” is made available to purchasers of the lp as a high-resolution download. We believe the song provides a fitting cap to the collection, and feels perhaps like a walk through tall rolling grasses at early dusk. 

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Album Production

Recorded at Drum Farm Studio - Menomonie, WI

Produced by A Thousand Plateaus

Mixed by John Richardson

Engineered by Jackson Dols

Mastered by Jonathan Pines at Private Studios

Released by Alps of Maldives Press

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Track List​

Even the Sun Has a Dial

Sabellian

My Purchase

The Night Will Open

I Have You

Avivit

November Snow

The Natural Lawbreakers

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More information about our music can be found here:

https://www.atplateaus.com/music

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