Track Listing

1. Favorite Hands
2. We'll Make Our Home
3. Everyone's Afraid of Fear
4. Between the Seams
5. Dealer Dealer
6. Iron Mountain
7. Up to Our Waist
8. In a Way
9. Want To
10. Wishing Well
11. Everything Always
12. (Stingray) Trapped in Platinum

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #472556 in Music
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Number of discs: 1

Album Description
This is the debut album from Montreal/Chicago trio Letters Letters, a band made up of veteran electronic music producer Mitchell Akiyama, singer Jenna Robertson and producer/singer Tony Boggs. Mitchell Akiyama has been an active part of the music scene for some time now as a solo artist, label boss and collaborator with various other musicians, most notably with Boggs (as Désormais) and Robertson (as Avia Gardener), but this is the first time the three musicians have put their heads together and created something which absolutely defies their earlier work. Turning electronic music and post-rock on its head, Letters Letters instead decided to look to the early '80s. With broken synthesizers, fizzled-out drum machines and the usual arsenal of guitars and overdriven amplifiers, they managed to figure out a perfect pop formula. Taking the usual hooks and choruses and feeding them through a mire of grimy effects, they ended up with something flickering and desperately neon-colored. Music for day-glo wrist bands and basement parties, this is a fresh take on the DIY lo-fi scene, and even if the whole fanzine culture has broken down, making way for blogs and webzines, it doesn't mean we have to lose touch with the grittier side of life. Touching on themes as diverse as sex, drugs and the all-important unicorn scene in Blade Runner, there shouldn't be any reason not to usher Letters Letters into your life immediately.

Customer Reviews

Headphone Commute Review
Xela's label takes on an indie and experimental neofolk three-piece band. Heading up the group, Mitchell Akiyama produces loosely structured rubber-band like rhythmic pieces accompanied by his breathing, distorted vocals along with a sweet and sexy whispering growl from Jenna Robertson. I know that observation may have sounded unappealing, but the above combination of sonic jam produces a desirable effect (otherwise I wouldn't listen to it over and over). Describing their style as "noise-pop" the trio (oops, forgot to mention Tony Boggs) uses "broken drum machines" and "fizzing analogue synthesizers" to bring back the days of sleazy, crunchy, and uncategorized music. Not like anything I've heard before. Favorite tracks: Dealer Dealer and Everyone's Afraid of Fear