Here’s a bunch of exciting news from electro Cambridge, MA duo, Arms and Sleepers. Firstly, they have a new EP out on 7″, called ‘The Motorist‘. It was released last month and is available from their myspace with a limited press of 300. The Motorist is somewhat of a prequel EP to their currently unnamed upcoming album, which is set for release in May this year. There’s no other details about it yet, but I’m sure they will all start to emerge soon enough. They also talk of a sequal to their dreamy ‘Cinématique‘, to be released sometime early this year in a hand-packaged limited edition of 100. And if that’s not enough for you, there’s also this little tidbit of info on their blog of info about a possible re-release of ‘Bliss Was It In That Dawn To Be Alive’:

There are talks about doing a vinyl version of this release with a bonus song and additional artwork, but this won’t be for a while. We’ll let you know when/if we get closer to this.

I would have written a short review of The Motorist, giving all my great thoughts and opinons of it, but I only found out about it a few days ago and haven’t actually heard it yet (my copy is in the mail somewhere). I couldn’t even find a tracklist for it anywhere :(. Luckily some people on last.fm scrobbled the tracks from it, so I can only guess it’s something like this:

1. Dear Charles, My Muse, Asleep or Dead
2. The Motorist
3. Jetty
4. Algiers Point
5. In The Empire of Builders

I’m pretty excited to hear it. Arms and Sleepers played one of the best shows and made one of the best albums I’ve ever had the pleasure of listening. Speaking of shows, they’re currently on tour right now around the US. Here’s their tour poster with upcoming dates. Although check their myspace for the latest dates, since they might have changed!

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