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A two-piece collaboration between Wes Kaplan and Jared Arnold, The Craters<\/strong> bring lo-fi sensibility to everything they touch – a Midas gift in reverse, abstracting loose change from a pure source of gold. They come hewn from the Amazing Wow<\/a> label, a free download project that “rejects the concept of music piracy and the antiquated notion that every download is a lost sale”. (Note this recent report<\/a> which finds that “pirates” are “10 times more likely to buy music”.)<\/em><\/p>\n The band’s most recent release is billed as a double EP, but with such a disparate range of sounds employed, it could well be a compilation release from a bunch of bands that we only think<\/em> we know. ‘Kissing\/Samba Party’ is a collection of tracks that fold back with thoughts of someone taking a pair of scissors to our precious collection of Animal Collective, Anticon, Fleet Foxes and Ghostly International sleeves, and then using cheap, no-brand tape to bluntly force them together again. Of course, the end result is nothing like the original – it just keeps falling apart and, in the mess of junk on the floor, we might just find something altogether more interesting.<\/p>\n Download the full release at amazingwow.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Craters – Samba Party<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\n The Craters – Like You Used To Know<\/strong> | mp3<\/a><\/p>\n