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The Matter
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Length
13 tracks, 47:37
Release Date
22 October 2012
For several years now, Faded Paper Figures has been one of the best kept secrets of indie-electronic music, delivering gorgeous melodies, complex harmonies, and pop-cultural brilliance to a small and devoted fanbase online. With the release of their third album, “The Matter,” the band’s sound has matured into something more powerful and intense. Alternately sparse and epic, harmonic and grinding, pensive and playful, "The Matter” takes FPF beyond their electro-pop beginnings to create something even more sincere, epic, and profound. There are moments in “The Matter” that echo t… read more
For several years now, Faded Paper Figures has been one of the best kept secrets of indie-electronic music, delivering gorgeous melodies, complex har… read more
For several years now, Faded Paper Figures has been one of the best kept secrets of indie-electronic music, delivering gorgeous melodies, complex harmonies, and pop-cultural brilliance t… read more

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Tracklist

Track number Play Loved Track name Artist name Buy Options Duration Listeners
1 Play track San Narciso
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 4:26 19,589 listeners
2 Play track Piledrive
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 3:23 10,592 listeners
3 Play track Information Runs On
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 3:35 5,933 listeners
4 Play track Relatively
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 3:03 10,993 listeners
5 Play track Better
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 2:49 5,787 listeners
6 Play track My Magellan
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 4:20 5,049 listeners
7 Play track First Son
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 3:15 4,997 listeners
8 Play track Holy Smoke
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 3:30 6,368 listeners
9 Play track Pointing At the Moon
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 3:32 4,907 listeners
10 Play track Avida Dollars
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 3:55 5,039 listeners
11 Play track So Far Out
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 2:27 4,270 listeners
12 Questions
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 4:35 4,182 listeners
13 Play track Pantechnê Driver
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 4:47 3,957 listeners

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Bands typically break up after college. People move away, grow apart, or just shrivel up and get jobs. It was good while it lasted, right? But what happens when the music is so good, the band’s listeners so devout, the ambition to keep creating so strong that even the time-draining power of day jobs can’t get in the way? Such is the story of Faded Paper Figures, whose “day jobs” are not exactly easy gigs: Heather Alden is in residency after graduating from medical school (a real doctor!), John Williams is a full-time professor of English at Yale (just published his first book), … read more
Bands typically break up after college. People move away, grow apart, or just shrivel up and get jobs. It was good while it lasted, right? But what happens when the music is so good, the… read more
Bands typically break up after college. People move away, grow apart, or just shrivel up and get jobs. It was good while it lasted, right? But what happens when the music is so good, the band’s listeners so devout, the ambition to k… read more

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