'Listening to Math and Physics Club's self-titled debut album is an unrelentingly pleasant experience. Drawing on influences like CD86-style {indie pop}, current Scot-pop bands like Camera Obscura, and Sarah label bands (Brighter, Another Sunny Day, etc.), the group lightly and politely strums and jangles through ten witty and gentle songs of love lost and found. Warmth is the key word to describe the record, whether it's singer Charles Bert's dulcet tones, the subtle layers of strings (strummed acoustic ...   [ read more ]

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Rising from the ashes of the enigmatic San Diego post-rock troupe Physics at the beginning of 2000, Aspects of Physics exists as a continuation of existing ideas with the much-needed fusion of new thoughts on music. In order to further their experiments, Jason Soares (who has served time in such bands as Rob Crow's power-pop Thingy, the mock-political hardcore band Rice, and the indie-instrumentalist Stacatto Reads) and original member Thatcher Orbitashi have constructed a wide array of input devices in th...   [ read more ]

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'Math and Physics Club are five very sweet and gentle kids from Seattle playing {indie pop} the likes of which would have sounded right at home on a Rough Trade Indiepop collection. Equally influenced by the lovelorn sounds of Sarah Records bands like Brighter and the laid-back romanticism of Aussie bands like the Lucksmiths and the Go-Betweens, the band's first EP is a four-track gem that manages to escape any charges of imitation by delivering very strong songs loaded with tender emotion and easygoing c...   [ read more ]

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