The Seldon Plan is a Baltimore-based band that plays “tuneful-wistful rock...†(The Washington Post). The band’s live performance schedule has been steady throughout the northeast US over the past couple of years as they supported their first full-length record Making Circles, and their second full-length The Collective Now – including shows with The Stills, Matt Pond PA, Now It’s Overhead, The Octopus Project, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Explosions in the Sky, and Jet By Day.
The Collective Now was released in Sept. 2007 by the Magnatune Record Label. A re-mastered version was re-released by The Beechfields Record Label in Dec. 2007. The record was named one of the "Best Baltimore Records of 2007" by The Baltimore sun in Dec. 2007, and on of the "top 50 records of 2007" by Amie St.
The Big Takeover describes The Collective Now as "11 highly melodic, totally tuneful songs buttressed by rushing, bright guitars...that also alights on late period, nicer Superchunk and Tsunami." Amplifier Magazine suggests that, "The Collective Now, exude[s] an infectious stroke of grooviness not heard since Heavy Vegetable, Thingy, Pinback or The Swirlies."
This new record by The Seldon Plan, is an expansive exploration of the band’s on-again-off-again relationship with pop music. The Collective Now was originally meant to be a dance-pop record with a healthy reverence to early 80’s college radio. However, The Collective Now evolved into what the band suggests is their own mature, widely influenced brand of modern indie pop.
What results is an interesting essay on the tension a band might feel between simplicity, accessibility and artistic expression. Listeners might hear The Collective Now as a diverse intersection between Maritime, The Little Ones, Band of Horses, Earlimart and The Swirlies.
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