Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful Walking The Emptiness Machine

The Emptiness Machine

On several tracks

Design Feature: 2019 Divide World Tour

Baird and Lattimores subjects range from the sound of light on water

born on January 1st

Maps & Atlases Beware and Be Grateful Walking The Emptiness MachineOn their second full length album, Chicago's Maps & Atlases defy easy categorization, choosing to walk their own incomparable musical path. Beware and Be Grateful sees the band's trademark experimentalism morphing to suit a more direct though no less beguiling songcraft. Fueled by a panoply of sonic influences, the album abounds with novel invention, spanning hymnal harmonies, percolating rhythms, even, in the case of centerpiece track, "Silver Self,"