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| POPULAR SENTIMENT Here, you may download a .pdf one sheet. Feature in the Raleigh Hatchet! Record "...add Maple Stave to the short list of new math rockers not pulling from a one-trick bag. Sure, the old familiars come into play here: Unrest is an easy comparison, as is Murray Street Sonic Youth. Both the serial persistence steering "Theme" and the frenzied coda of "Bird" recall epic-building post-rockers Mogwai, and Chris William's deadpan-to-frenzied vocals recall mordant Shipping News and Fin Fang Foom. But Maple Stave manages to match fever-pitch instrumentals with caustic denunciations with slow-building manifestos, smartly keeping them all under seven minutes and more about the movement's progress than the musicians' pride." --from EP ONE review in the Independent Weekly "EP Two is about restraint, teasing and eventual fulfillment, traits too often passed over in largely instrumental music by bands more interested in emotional glad-handing achieved through loud-to-louder shifts. Here, Maple Stave finds a mid-tempo and exploits it by ruining it, Evan Rowe's whipsmart drumming scuffing and pounding the surface, Andy Hull pushing hard on root notes." --from EP TWO review in the Independent Weekly Live "All the kiddies rocking to The Arcade Fire and Tapes 'n Tapes may not remember the mid-'90s outside of Silverchair and Soundgarden, but many are still aware that their beloved Triangle was the post-Athens "it" of indie rock. Archers and Superchunk be damned, though: Elsewhere, "angular" was the buzzword, math was the subject, and Chicago, D.C. and Louisville were the places for bands like June of 44, Hoover and Slint. Durham darlings Maple Stave carry that tradition, and they're easily one of the best bands in the Triangle. 10 p.m. --Rich Ivey, Independent Weekly "For those
regular readers here...caught a decent indie band from Chapel Hill
at the Hut last night called The Maple Stave. Tasty stuff." "I saw
Maple Stave this past Saturday in Lynchburg, Va opening for a band
called Nation Gaddy. It was a funny show. Lynchburg is a weird town.
It's the town where Jerry Fallwell headquarters his conservative
christian hoarde. It's also a town full of Nascar fans and guys
who drive trucks with gun racks. So needless to say the crowd was
hungry for the rock. Maple Stave came out and blew most of their
minds. I remember one kid running by me screaming about how amazing
they were."
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