The Outline open their album with an interesting song 'Aesthetics' fully of re-mix and
electronically edited vocals to produce a thoughtful track full of round sounds that could have been anything but ultimately proved to be a satisfying opener, with the second track 'Life Or Life Like' jumped off in a different direction with its keyboard dance sound
that produced the desired result, think 'Head Automatica' but after listening to the album a few times and been surprised with every twist and turn of direction that each track brings 'experimental' is the least of their worries. The third song 'Death To Our Enemies' has been released as a single and is a tongue in cheek exploration of ? the band say it explores "Mortality and the inevitability of our own end".

This album first saw the light of day two years ago when it was released in the US on the Fearless label, and now it is due to be released in the UK on the 30:30 label.

The band formed in 2004 so this album captures their growth in the first two years up to 2006 when they recorded the album, and the difference in complexity amongst the songs showed that they developed rapidly with the forth track on the album ' Why We're Better Now' measurably better in structure then the proceeding ones. We are then treated to one of the bands early tracks 'Shotgun' which displays punky simplicity but never the less is a reasonably listen. There seems to be an English vein running through the album with nods in the direction of The Beatles and Radiohead and a hilarious narative on the final track.

The album has twelve tracks that twist and turn in styles but with a rod of quality touching all. So to sum up the album shows the rapidly maturing sound of an experimental band out of LA that had two years of growth and has put together some pretty decent songs that will make me want to know what they are creating now..

Graham Fink - Vocals/Guitar
Austen Lee - Keyboards/Guitar
Ryan Rabin - Drums
Max St. John - Bass

The Outline Official Site