PREORDER - LATE JUNE RELEASE
New project featuring Michael Carpenter and Mark Moldre (Hitchcock`s Regret) and which gives good reasons why two incredibly talented musicians can and shoud come together. Answer: Because they can make some incredible music that will stun Not Lame folks into a state of pure bliss. 
Carpenter fans will recognize some familiar fabric in the pure pop magic that Michael Carpenter has embedded in his DNA and will not find "Seize The World" a stretch, musically. But this is two guys coming together making something different, creating and challenging each other, pushing forward, finding new directions and ways to get lost in the music-creating process. To call it `wildly successful` is an understatement.
Intrigued by the idea of spontaneously creating music in this day and age of over thought, over wrought, and over produced music, Carpenter and Moldre longed for the `good old days` of instant creation, and making decisions early in the creative process. They set about the idea of writing, recording and mixing a track... arriving in the morning with nothing except maybe some loose snippets of songs, and leaving with a completed track. The concept worked so well, and so liberated the both of them, that creatively they found themselves pushing each other into unexplored territory (for them.)
This album `Seize The World`, is the culmination of 13 days work over 14 months. It touches on the pop stylings both men revel in in their own projects, but the scope of this album ranges from McCartney-esque ballads (in fact late-era Beatle-isms abound all over the place here), through to indie pop rants, passing through country rock, epic pop and even a few delicious grooves. It`s a classic rock album, in the purest sense of the word. "STW" is packed filled with wedding-cake melodies, haunting, thrilling hooks and the colliding shadings two incredible musicians who happen to be disarmingly outstanding harmonizers. "Seize The World" also includes a monumental cover of Nik Kershaw`s 80`s worldwide smash,
`Wouldn`t It Be Good`! And, boy, is it COOL! In keeping with the somewhat
retro spirit of the project, the album includes the full 12 song stereo album, plus as a bonus, 10 of the tracks mixed in mono (they would have loved to have fit the whole mono album, but they just couldnt squeeze it
on!) Rather than being just collapsed stereo mixes, the mono versions differ, sometimes quite dramatically, from the stereo mixes. The idea behind this is that the stereo mixes utilized the classic `wide` stereo technique.. with instruments panned hard to one side or the other, exhagerrating the sound and impact of each instrument. The mono mixes on the other hand are much leaner, and punchy.. straight down the centre for maximum impact. It gives the listener an opportunity to enjoy 2 very different perspective on this very individual project.
You`ve read all this? My Dear Boy/Girl, stop looking. Listen and get this gem right onto the shelves of your collection which deserves this slab of musical transcendence-via-convergence.
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