Scientific Maps
Hold On Whoever You Are
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Label: B3nson Records
Format: Digital Download (B3018)
“[Hold On Whoever You Are] stands up to the Maps cannon. Catchy, melodic pop about lost loves and lack of sleep. Chock full of delicious backing vocals, vocal overlays and guitar solos. Happy songs about haunting desperation.”
(Danielle Furfaro, Times Union)
Track Listing:
1. Hold On Whoever You Are
2. Wherein We Are Introduced to the Author as He is Tortured and Transported Via Ship from Portugal to an English Prison
3. An Account of Some Odd Disturbances and an Otherworldly Warning
4. Solitary Confinement
5. The Angry Spectre Floats into the Cell Every Midnight and Insists Our Author Dance an Awkward Waltz
6. Lack of Sleep and Repeated Vindictive Visits Results in a Loss of Fortitude
7. With Renewed Vigor a Stratagem for Escape is Formulated and Subsequently Put into Action
8. Where the Author, Now Free, Finds Escape Was the Easiest Part and Having Neglected to Plan Further Regarding Transport to his Desired Destination Begins to Lose His Bearings and Sneaks into a Pub Called ‘The Ring’
9. The Author, By Lucky Accident, Boards a Seemingly Abandoned Vessel and Convinces the Crew to Assist in his Final Escape with Hollow Hopes and Promises of Much Land and Riches
10. At Last, Sleep! Our Hero Dreams of a Lost Love He’s Never Known
11. However Are You Holding On? In Which the Author Departs and Resolves
