H O W I D O

All music and Lyrics by Penny and Sparrow
Production and Mixing and Everything Else by Chris Jacobie
Mastering by Ambient Digital
Album Art by Trip Carroll

Creature

Mr. Quiche

Our debut album "When It Was Now," is now available on iTunes- smarturl.it/atlas

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About Atlas Genius-
The members of Adelaide, Australia’s Atlas Genius do things a little differently….They set about building a studio where they could write and record music for their newly formed band 3 years before they even played their first live show as Atlas Genius. For two years, they devoted their days to constructing their dream studio and spent their nights performing songs by The Police, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones at local pubs to pay the bills. “We really got down and dirty with dry walling and literally laying the floorboards, and at the same time we were taking a couple of days a week to focus on writing songs,” recalls Keith Jeffery, Atlas Genius’s vocalist/guitarist. "We had a lot of song ideas and it was important to us to have our own studio where we could experiment and hone in on our sound," adds brother and drummer, Michael Jeffery. The studio was designed and outfitted by the brothers with the help of their father (who comes from a music and engineering background). Once the studio was complete, the first song that Atlas Genius finished was a song called “Trojans,” which they wrote, recorded and produced in collaboration with their friend, keyboardist Darren Sell. After many weeks tweaking the song, Michael insisted that the song was ready to be heard outside of the studio walls. Within an hour, “Trojans” was on the Triple J Unearthed Website, SoundCloud, and for sale via TuneCore on iTunes, Amazon and Spotify worldwide.

“We had begun to think that music was a pipedream and we had all gone back to university to pursue more realistic careers,” says Keith. “We’d had such a long slog of playing late nights and working all day, and it felt like we didn’t really have anything to show for it.” But then, in the midst of cramming for their Fall 2011 semester final exams, Neon Gold discovered “Trojans” on the Triple J Unearthed Website and wrote a post praising “Trojans” as a song sure to “invade your head, all dressed up in a clever disguise of earnest vocals riding a hooky riff.” Checking the band’s email account for the first time in over a month, the band found that dozens of record labels, publishers, lawyers, booking agents and management companies from all over the world had contacted them.

“We were trying to focus on school, but it was just impossible,” recalls Keith. “So we said, ‘There’s something going on here. Let’s get back to the music.’” The band added manager, Jonny Kaps from +1, to their extended family to navigate all of the interest as the band focused on writing and recording more songs.

Quickly named an iTunes Single of the Week in Australia and New Zealand, “Trojans” reached #4 on Hype Machine by the end of May. In August, SiriusXM Satellite Radio’s Alt-Nation discovered the song on a blog and decided to give it some spins. There was an immediate reaction from listeners, and in September, “Trojans” was placed into heavy rotation, where it maintained a top-five position on the listener-generated Alt-18 countdown and peaked at number one for 4 consecutive weeks in January 2012. “Trojans” began selling over a thousand tracks per week on U.S. iTunes and soon climbed to 45,000 sales - all with zero promotional efforts from the still-unsigned Atlas Genius.

“Knowing we had this audience that was waiting on new songs, we had a much greater sense of purpose than we had before,” says Keith. “It was really exciting to know that there were people who wanted to hear more of our music.” Although labels were clamoring for the band to come to the U.S. and play a series of showcase gigs, Atlas Genius turned down those offers in favor of staying in Adelaide to keep writing and recording new songs. In February 2012, after months of communicating with numerous labels via Skype, the band chose to travel to the US in order to make their label decision.

“We’d never been to America before,” says Keith. “We flew in at night and saw this sea of lights, and it really became apparent to us how massive the U.S. is. It was pretty intimidating - like ‘How do we fit into all this?’” In April 2012, the band returned to the states having made their decision to sign with Warner Bros. Records. “We felt a connection with them,” notes Keith. “Everyone there feels very creative and dedicated to the music.”

The band’s first release from their new label home, the EP Through The Glass (produced, engineered and mixed by the band), came out in June of 2012. With Through The Glass completed, Atlas Genius then holed up in its studio and worked on writing and recording its first full-length album, while at the same time rehearsing for their first ever tour. The tour started in August 2012 and led to three more tours back to back taking them thru to the end of the year. Thus, their full-length debut was finished up between tour dates and got completed just before Christmas 2012. When It Was Now is set for a US release on February 19th, 2013, with an international release to follow soon after.

The debut captures Atlas Genius’s singular combination of sophisticated musicality and warm, wistful spirit. Infused with a classic sensibility, each of the songs would fit seamlessly if somehow slipped into a long-treasured mixtape. On the shimmering “Symptoms,” for instance, taut keyboard riffs mesh with urgent acoustic strumming before the band bursts into a gently frenetic, guitar-drenched chorus. Meanwhile, “Back Seat” blends its pulsing bass throb with a sweetly infectious beat and tender vocals that alternately soar and sigh. And on “Trojans,” Atlas Genius begins with a restrained guitar melody and vocal (“Take it off, take it in/Take off all the thoughts of what we’ve been”) before giving way to the handclap-accented, harmony-soaked refrain and lush yet kinetic bridge.

“It’s still surreal,” says Keith of all that’s happened over the past 18 months. “I think when we were very young, we had hopes that something like this might happen one day,” he continues. (Thanks largely to encouragement from their Beatles fanatic parents, who encouraged the brothers to begin playing music by age 14.) “But then you grow up a bit and it seems less and less likely. So when we put ‘Trojans’ out, we figured it would be a success if maybe a hundred people heard it. We don’t want to force our music onto anyone. Our goal is to write songs that we love and we hope they connect with other people too.”

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Atlas Genius - Back Seat

Bloodstream-Stateless

Sister Crayon - Futile Devices (Sufjan Stevens Cover)

Probably my favourite tune on the compilation..or at least the one that will likely linger for me the longest. Worst Friends are made up of Slow Hands from the Wolf & Lamb crew outta NYC and Tom Croose from surfside LA. When chillin with the latter in LA last year i was playing some tunes to Mr Croose who, if you haven't checked his stuff already, makes exceptional laidback haze induced space float. Together they turned this new wave Aussie surf jam into a classic you'd expect at the tail end of your favourite Spike Jonze skateboard flick. The one's where the technical tricks get put aside and and its all flowing lines, sunsets, friends and good times - Nathan

FREE DOWNLOAD - Gung Ho - Twin Rays (Worst Friends Remix)

SNAKADAKTAL - DANCE BEAR (AMTRAC REMIX)

Dracula

Trying To Reach You

Nurses - "Trying To Reach You" (Official Audio)

"Ya Never Know" from the Friends EP out October 16
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Ya Never Know - FRIENDS EP Versions

Sleepy Tea - Make Believe

Mull EP

B u y

Waiting Like A Wolf

I've come a long way
So if you wanna wait now
I'll probably stay

Just tell me where you wanna go
I'll promise we'll make it
But I really don't know

So baby come down with me tonight
Just lay it all down upon the line

So I burnt my car
In front of your house
The smoke just rose in the middle of the night
The snow outside was left

To track my steps 
When I struck that match
If we were lovers then you take it back
Then we stayed till the fire died down
Then we let it go

I've come a long way
So if you wanna wait now
I'll probably stay

Just tell me who you wanna be
I promise I'll take you
But I'll struggle with me

So baby come down with me tonight
Just lay it all down upon the line

So I burnt my car
In front of your house
The smoke just rose in the middle of the night
The snow outside was left

To track my steps 
When I struck that match
If we were lovers then you take it bad
Then we stayed till the fire died down
Then we let it go

Wild EP

We Were Lovers

Our 'Hey Now' EP is out now: http://po.st/HeyNow

Our debut album 'If You Wait' is out now!

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Metal & Dust

Hey Now

The second single and two remixes from the album No One In Control to be released on Serpents & Snakes May 2013.  

Keep Quiet

Wilsen - Dusk

"Harvest" from The Wilderness: by k.s. Rhoads
Release date: March 5, 2013
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Harvest

Steady Sun - 'Actress'

Buy the Metal & Dust EP on iTunes now: http://smarturl.it/METAL-AND-DUST

Our debut album 'If You Wait' is out now!

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Metal & Dust (X Factor Performance)

Released February 18th 2013 via Tru-Thoughts Recordings

Machine

Qtier return with Kind, taken from their second EP 'The Cards' released on Bpitch Control Berlin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwqljbFamZE

Kind

Band Reviewer for Music Connection. Playlist Maker for The Music Ninja.

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