The Atlanta-based This Piano Plays Itself delves deep into the electronic possibilities traditional instruments can offer, their style a drugged state of the usual rock fare, one that's somehow pulls off refined incoherence.

In many of their songs, the start is slow and mellow, with the melodies quietly building towards a sort of climax that pulls in instrumentation you wouldn't always expect -- reverbs, pitch shifters, delays and echoes, with the occasional horn cutting through the effects. Their style carries masculine overtones; their subtle certain machismo rock almost always pounds its way through their art facade.
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Click here to listen to an interview with the band. </a>

The band is one of two inaugural acts signed to Gavin Frederick's Adair Park, a separate project from his locally-lauded Stickfigure Records. <a href="http://www.myspace.com/thispianoplaysitself">Check them online</a>, or watch the video below (or both, really). 

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