On Turning the Mind, Chapman seems to have taken a slightly different direction in his shoe-gazing antics. Taking more influence from the dance floor, his sophomore effort is a mixed bag according to Daniel Offen.
Maps

Maps Celebrity Playlist
Maps release new album ‘Turning The Mind’ via Mute on 28th September followed by an extensive UK tour. Inside, James Chapman creates us a 10 track mixtape.

Maps announces new album details
Maps – aka James Chapman – has announced details of the release of a new album, Turning The Mind, released on Mute in September.

Sonic Cathedral – Cathedral Classics Vol. 1
London’s Sonic Cathedral has been quietly perpetuating a psychedelic shoegaze renaissance for almost five years. Cathedral Classics Volume 1, collects the highlights from the label’s first 11 singles.
HEADLINES
- Best Coast announce UK headline tour, new album due in Spring
- Timber Timbre announced as support for Laura Marling tour
- Clarence Clemons’ nephew Jake Clemons joins the E Street Band
- Barack Obama drops campaign mixtape
- Cate Le Bon announces UK tour
- Kanye West and Jay-Z rumoured to be appearing in Shoreditch today
- The Flaming Lips, Friends and Tom Vek amongst those confirmed for The Parklife Weekender 2012
- Hot Chip, Mount Kimbie, Metronomy and more to play Sónar 2012
- Josh T. Pearson, Beth Jeans Houghton and Gilles Peterson added to The Apple Cart line-up
- Sigur Rós, The xx, The Horrors and more added to Bestival line-up
Videos
Latest Reviews
- Field Music – Plumb
- Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
- Coolrunnings – Dracula Is Only The Beginning
- Tennis – Young And Old
- Maribel – Reveries
- Woodpigeon – For Paolo
- Amanda Mair – Amanda Mair
- Karen Dalton – 1966
- Gotye – Making Mirrors
- Suzanne Ciani – Lixiviation
- James Levy and the Blood Red Rose – Pray To Be Free
- Thomas Truax – Monthly Journal
- Of Montreal – Paralytic Stalks










