The title of THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES seventh proper full length is a sigil. A sigil is often used in magic and can take an aural form. This particular sigil is a potent symbol of desire, but, this sigil is unpronounceable – so you can call the album “The Impossible Shapes”.
THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPESÂ have been merrily musickmaking for a decade now. With this release the band has recorded songs which were flushed out over many live performances over many tours all across the globe. Although the individual songs vary quite a bit, this is perhaps the band’s most cohesive album to date. This album is their pinnacle song mound that could have been issued by Zapple, if times had been different. At the root, these four long-hairs are a pop band — kinda like how Byrds became a meta group — who’ve been strained through British folk as well as the whole post/beat/mystic literate gob.
THE IMPOSSIBLE SHAPES are a band that Charles Aaron of SPIN Magazine describes as “Indie rockers who trip nervously like Love and muse enigmatically like Pavement. Few bands daydream and flake out with such a mature sense of purpose”. This self titled album is perhaps the Bloomington, Indiana band’s best manifestation of this sentiment. And The Impossible Shapes want to show you.
Please check out (and share) the following MP3 of a song called “Hey!”:
http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/hey.mp3
And here is the first of a series of videos produced and directed by members and friends of the band. This video for the song “Let The People Build What They Will”Â
http://www.scjag.com/mp3/sc/letthepeoplebuild.mov
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