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Product Description Signposts: My Bloody Valentine Moose Ride Slowdive. The debut album by The Meeting Places is brimming with wondrous guitar washes & melodies to hum & holler. Find Yourself Along the Way renovates the spellbinding landscapes first explored by noise-pop artists such as My Bloody Valentine & Ride. The record was produced & includes an appearance by Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart Folk Implosion). Trying to describe The Meeting Places debut long player with words other than beautiful is nigh. Review "A thoroughly captivating collection of bleached out sonic pop symphonies." -- Mark Barton, Losing Today, July 2003 "It's back, better than ever. The sound that never went away is a wave that's rising again." -- Marcel Feldmar, The Big Takeover, Fall 2003 (#53) "This CD is perfect for an afternoon nap in the sunbeam coming through your bedroom window." -- Scott Sweet, The Sentimentalist, Fall 2003 (#13) About the Artist THE MEETING PLACES was founded in September 2001 in Los Angeles, California by four guitarists, including Scott McDonald (Alison's Halo and Brad Laner's post-Medicine project, Amnesia), the architect of the quartet's signature reverberating washes. Dean Yoshihara soon shifted to drum kit, Arthur Chan lent his talents to bass guitar, and singer and lyricist Chase Harris remained on rhythm guitar. Each member contributed to the songwriting process on their debut album for Words On Music in 2003. 'Find Yourself Along the Way' is a stream of peerless compositions that inconspicuously tours the best of the early 1990s dream pop scene. But, due in large part to Harris' deliciously nonchalant voice, the songwriting progresses from that scene with momentum towards a sparkling style of noise-pop that is equally memorable and provocative. The quartet has performed live extensively in California, including the 2003 San Francisco Noise-Pop Festival. They also performed at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in March 2003.