'All You'll Ever Find' is a lush yet spacious track driven by persistent drums, cyclic electric guitar and spiralling synthesizers, taken from the duo's recently released self-titled debut album.

THE MAP ROOM - All You'll Ever Find

'Other Animal' is the first single from The Map Room's new album 'Weatherless'. A song about the perils of living in our ultra-connected digital world, 'Other Animal' pushes the bands sound into new territory with it's head nodding rhythm and pulsing synths. 'Weatherless' is out 7th April 2017.

Other Animal

'Hold Me Up To The Sun' is the second single from The Map Room's forthcoming album 'Weatherless'.

Hold Me Up To The Sun

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Pilot

Atmospheric indie pop group The Map Room combine their love for well-constructed pop songs and embellished instrumentation with themes of displacement and motion inspired in part by their travels through South America.

Brendon Morrow and Simon Gooding met while studying Audio Engineering in Australia, and upon returning to their hometown of Auckland the pair began to write music together. During a year-long trip from Argentina to Colombia, the duo developed their sound by writing and playing shows along the way.

Armed with a portable recorder and two old acoustic guitars purchased from an antique store in Buenos Aires, the pair set off on their odyssey and began writing and recording the first fragments of new songs. As the transient nature of their year unfolded, lyrical themes of movement, displacement and strange encounters began to rise to the surface. 

The demos turned into fully-formed songs the duo would perform along the way, including slightly awkward Spanish-language live to air radio performances, and various gigs throughout Peru and into Colombia. No Spanish has made it into their songs thus far, but the band have crafted a sound which reaches from solo acoustic guitar (both acoustic guitars somehow making it home in one piece) to full band dynamics, rich with synthesizers, piano and electric guitar.

"Simon Gooding and Brendon Morrow's music is full of layers… sharing vocal duties, with Simon's voice a high floaty contrast to Brendon's lower grittier voice…the duo's music is sculptural and delicate. 'Pilot' is my favourite; a dreamy pop song sprinkled with synths so light and airy they sound like they're floating high above you, with vocals equally sky-high." (Einstein Music Journal)

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