themaldivesband The Maldives Seattle In the great Northwest, The Maldives are more than a band, they are an institution. With a history that goes back more than half a decade (their friendships considerably longer), they’ve played every kind of gig imaginable- from backwoods festivals on the back of a flatbed truck to the inauguration of Seattle’s musically minded mayor. They have overflowed the stages at SXSW, CMJ, Capitol Hill Block Party, Sasquatch, and Bumbershoot. In 2010, they were featured on MTV’s $5 Cover series which spotlighted the best of Seattle’s music scene. What started as the personal project for lead singer and songwriter Jason Dodson has at times swollen to a small army of twelve before settling on seven full-time members. At some point, The Maldives became bigger than any one man. Their debut full-length, 2009’s Listen to the Thunder (Mt. Fuji, produced by Grammy Award-winner Kory Kruckenberg), was the culmination of years of live playing, not a studio piece, but a faithful document of who the Maldives had become as a live band. Their latest release Muscle for the Wing (Spark & Shine) is the opportunity to bring the band’s assembled creativity together in a different way and explore their combined vision. And this time they brought in producer Shawn Simmons (The Head and the Heart, Grand Hallway) to capture it all. It builds on a heritage of cinematic American rock & roll that’s at turns chivalrous and fist-pumping, steeped in tradition but unbound by expectations. Dodson’s words reveal characters set in a widescreen frame, scenes from real life that often portray victims of the heart and casualties to the beast that is circumstance. themaldivesband’s tracks 10 YEARS by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:51:28 +0000 10 - Walk Away by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:42:05 +0000 08 - The New One by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:38:35 +0000 07 - Whidbey Island Blues by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:37:52 +0000 06 - Tequila Sunday by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:34:46 +0000 04 - Say Nothing by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:32:24 +0000 03 - Cold November by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:30:31 +0000 05 - Do You Still by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:27:12 +0000 11 - Going Home by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:20:53 +0000 02 - Time Is Right Now by themaldivesband published on 2013/05/25 00:16:45 +0000
