Math - BURY ME IN NORTH ALGONA
For a long time my friend Brandon Fodden and I (Jeremy Latta) talked about forming a rock band. See, we'd been doing ambient noise, and he'd been in a folky outfit, I'd been in the infamous Loki and the Ancient Ones, but none of these, we felt, provided an outlet for our pop-writing talents. So we.... ruminated. For a long time. Then we ruminated some more. We discussed what would make a successful pop band (naturally the answer was: "us") and battened down the hatches to do some recording.

Of course, since we're both obsessed with control over our own creative output, we recorded our own songs, without so much as a hint of collaboration. That's the way a "band" ought to operate, eh? Anyway, we both compiled 11 melodic wonders and slowly, slowly went about putting together an album. To put it in some perspective, some of my songs were recording two and a half years before we finally finished. This is a bit of a shame, but they're still good songs.

While we were getting our recordings ready we actually did form a band - with real people other than just ourselves!! Ms. Sandra Marshall plays drums and Mr. Shane MacPherson plays bass in Math the live band. Math live is nothing like Math on tape. On tape we are sad. Live we are happy. We have Shane and Sandy to thank for this; they are very nice people. But, back to the album at hand - Bury me in North Algona is nice little album. It has been best described as "synth folk", if you need to call it something you can call it that. It features slow, sad songs about girls, the north and all of that good stuff. Pick it up, put it on, drink some lemonade and relax. Drive slow, visit the counties of your dreams.

Visit the brilliant Math web site maintained by Brandon Fodden for Math news, songs, pictures and all the rest.

Listen to a song from this album, by Brandon Fodden.

Listen to Math bassist Shane MacPherson's excellent music for more treats. Dominion would very much like to release, at the very least, a Shane MacPherson EP. Maybe someday.

Bury me in North Algona was also released on North Algona Records, whose sole proprietor is, amazingly, Brandon Fodden.

1. A crush on a girl who is weird
2. Think
3. Eighty days
4. Gone
5. Franklin
6. Telephone
7. Red
8. Cossack
9. Mountain
10. The back room
11. The girl in math class
12. Girls see ghosts
13. Bury me
14. Testdrive
15. The last Atheling
16. You make me feel like I have cancer
17. Located and secured
18. Stars
19. Epilepsy
20. I think I like her pheremones
21. A song for my mathematician friend
22. North Algona
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