U.S. MapleBest U.S. Maple Albums Ranked

Acre Thrills

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9.1

“U.S. Maple does not feel like a band. U.S. Maple feels like a singular entity. U.S. Maple, a contradiction in and of itself, and a contradiction in sound, chaotic and disorganized in order to form a sort of unstructured structure, creating beauty and unpredictability out of fucked-up randomness. It sounds weird. It twists around an idea without warning and transforms into another then snaps back t”

Talker

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8.5

“And then there are those bands which make no sense at all, and in doing so build their own definition of "making sense." U.S. Maple willfully, stubbornly makes no sense-- but not in the cleverly obscurist way Pavement makes no sense, and not in the yammering, screeching, pummeling way the Boredoms make no sense. *Talker*, you see, goes to great lengths to sabotage language, both musical and verbal”

Purple On Time

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6.6

“I used to know what to expect from U.S. Maple. Like a lot of wholly original bands, they'd become ironically predictable: each album had the lurching start/stops, the grim ashen-throat vocals, and the jittery guitars that needled your ears like pipe cleaners. In a world of stagey, contrived avant- and anti-rock, U.S. Maple were one of the few bands that didn't wink at you, and one of even fewer th”