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New project by Josh Wambeke of the Denver psychedelic pop duo PHINEAS GAGE (last heard in 2000 on their Camera Obscura CD "Reconsidered"). The band began life as a series of 4-tracks culled from a backlog of Wambeke's demos - experimental odds and ends deemed unsuitable for inclusion in the Phineas Gage repertoire due to their heavy usage of electronics and drum machines. When Wambeke's colleague in Gage, PATRICK PORTER, embarked on an extensive globetrot and started on a series of solo releases, Wambeke set out to combine the existing electro-ambient feel of these demos with the heavily-reverbed space guitars and layered, subterranean vocals that had comprised the Phineas Gage sound. Heavy influences during the recordings of Josh and friends included Joy Division and the Cure's "Disintegration". Runs the gamut from psych to space to post-rock with nods in the direction of early new wave and ambient electronics but in the end it is the band's effortless song craft and precise arrangements that propel tracks like the hypnotic "Data-Backspace=Error", the melancholy "End Forever", the haunting "Vacant Song" and the sublime acoustic closer "Cause of Cancer" into hearts and stratospheres