Maps: Biography

• Overview
• Discography
• Biography
• Related Artists

• Ride
• Robin Lane
• Classic Ruins
• The Helio Sequence
• La Peste
• Human Sexual Response
• Stars of Track and Field

• Spiritualized
• Low
• Boards of Canada
• My Bloody Valentine
• Four Tet

Genres:

Rock Music, Alternative Rock Music, Punk and Hardcore Rock Music, Oi

Decades Active:

1970's

Originally going under the name Short Break Operator, Maps is essentially Northampton U.K. sound sculptor James Chapman, who combines indie electronic with atmospheric, sleepy rock that owes as much to Spiritualized and My Bloody Valentine as it does to Four Tet and Boards of Canada. Chapman has released a few EPs, including Start Something via Last Space Recordings in 2006, and is assisted by a full band when playing live. Released by Mute in mid2007, Maps' debut fulllength album, We Can Create, was coproduced by Valgeir Sigurosson (Björk) and mixed by Ken Thomas (Sigur Rós).

- Kenyon Hopkin, All Music Guide