PARTS & LABOR

MAPMAKER

“Brilliant, sustained noise-rock minimalists with a monumental impact.” —The New York Times

“Fist-pumping choruses and chaos; the sense of a song not just being sung, but being hurled over the
side of a mountain.” —The Chicago Tribune

“What Parts & Labor have figured out how to do, in a way no one else really has, is to make noise
anthemic.” —Pitchfork Media

Mapmaker is the second Jagjaguwar/Brah album from Brooklyn noisepunks Parts & Labor.
Expanding on the soaring melodies and cracked electronics of 2006’s Stay Afraid, P&L explores a
wider array of berserk, malfunctioning instruments and intricate, pummeling rhythms. These 12
political/personal anthems about ambition and distraction boast bigger choruses, denser drones and
shinier hooks.

Adding new textures to Parts & Labor’s searing pop-squall, the album features guest spots from
flautist/megaphonist/vocalist Natalja Kent (of The Good Good) and guitarist Joe Kremer (of
labelmates Pterodactyl). Opening surge “Fractured Skies” features a horn section (led by P&L’s BJ
Warshaw on sax) billowing up through the kaleidoscopic fuzz of electronics. Track 10 is a distorted-
toy-keyboard take on the classic Minutemen antiwar spiel “King Of The Hill.”

Parts & Labor cite the following bands as influences and are totally cool with you name-checking
them: Hüsker Dü, Sonic Youth, Boredoms, Minutemen, Neutral Milk Hotel and Amps For Christ.
Parts & Labor spent 2006 touring extensively around Europe and North America, playing shows with
Clinic, Black Dice, Islands, Sonic Boom, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Wilderness, Man
Man, Spank Rock, An Albatross, Oneida, Year Future, Hidden Cameras, Charalambides, Wooden
Wand, Matt & Kim, Kyp Malone and Oakley Hall; and they can’t wait to do it again.

Mapmaker was recorded and mixed by The Brothers (Oxford Collapse, !!!, Measles Mumps Rubella,
Pterodactyl) at the Brothers Studio in Brooklyn, NY. Additional vocals and electronics were recorded
by Parts & Labor in a windowless bedroom. In between their Jag full-lengths, P&L recorded an all-
electronics EP for esteemed experimental electronic label Broklyn Beats. Warshaw and Friel also run
their own record label, Cardboard Records, which has recently put out music from Gowns, Big Bear,
Pterodactyl and Aa.

Parts & Labor:
Dan Friel (vocals/electronics/guitar)
BJ Warshaw (vocals/electronics/bass)
Christopher R. Weingarten (drums)

Fractured Skies
Brighter Days
Vision Of Repair
The Gold We're Digging
New Crimes
Long Way Down
Ghosts Will Burn
Unexplosions
Camera Shy
King Of The Hill
Fake Rain
Knives And Pencils

CATALOG #:

JAG103

RELEASE DATE:

MAY 22, 2007

FORMAT:

CD/LP

CD BOX LOT:

25 UNITS 

LP BOX LOT:

25 UNITS

GENRE:

ALTERNATIVE / INDIE ROCK

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PORTLAND, SAN FRANCISCO,

OAKLAND, LOS ANGELES, LONG BEACH, 
SAN DIEGO, CHICAGO, NEW YORK CITY,
BOSTON, DENVER, CLEVELAND,
BLOOMINGTON, AUSTIN, PHILADELPHIA,
MINNEAPOLIS, DETROIT

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1. Parts & Labor will tour the U.S. extensively around release date: supporting ADULT. in April, and
headlining their own tour in June/July.

2. Playing alongside TV On The Radio, Enon, Oneida, Melt Banana, Lightning Bolt and I Love You But
I’ve Chosen Darkness has created a burgeoning grassroots fanbase for Brooklyn, NY-based Parts &
Labor both domestically and in Europe.

3. Full domestic and international publicity. 300 college radio stations will be serviced. Ads to occur in
all major indie publications and sites, including Magnet, Bust, Pitchfork and Arthur.

4. Retail posters, promotional CDs and press kits are available upon request.

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