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Since it's inception, Los Angeles-based quartet FOLIO has had a big vision: to create a pogo-inducing hybrid of modern alt-rock energy and classic New Wave sounds. FOLIO's recipe features a marriage of prominent, vintage synths with driving guitars; carried by a host of sweat-soaked dance grooves, bum-shaking bass lines, and indelible vocal hooks. Often channeling a hybrid of classic/modern Electro Rock sonic textures in the vein of Duran Duran, Talk Talk, Killers, Shiny Toy Guns, New Order, Franz Ferdinand, and Depeche Mode, FOLIO has created a sound uniquely their own. Great Divide features performances by guest artist heavyweights Joey Waronker on drums (Paul McCartney, REM, Beck, Smashing Pumpkins), Lyle Workman on guitars (Sting, Beck, Frank Black), and Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (Beck, Morrissey, Air, Angels & Airwaves), who provided additional vintage synth textures. In 2008 FOLIO is working on a remix CD of the Great Divide tracks and are in the midst of writing a follow up full-length record.