CO2 Releases First Album

CO2 is a power pop/hard rock trio from Champaign, Illinois. Their first album, 21st Century S.O.S, features 12 songs merging hook-laden power pop, straight-up rock, and post-metal with hints of electronica/ambience peppered throughout.

Of particular interest after this season of impeachment hearings is track 7, "The Better Angles of Our Nature", an instrumental piece that blends acid rock and electronica under a sound bite montage of political players from the last few decades. The title is a play on the quote used by Nixon in his first inaugural speech and hints at the sly tone of the piece. Track 4, "Paper, Scissors, Stone", gradually stacks a piledriving wall of sound over an irrepressible bass riff for the prototypical example of the CO2 sound.

"21st Century S.O.S" greets the post-everything era with an album assessing some of late 20th Century cultural pathology. While the tone is generally serious, there is no overly self-absorbed sentiment. What we have here are extremely terse, almost curt essays just short of diatribe, yet with enough sense of irreverence to appreciate that "CO2" could easily stand for so much hot air.

Merging the high-tech promise of the silicon prairie and one of the midwest's more recognized hotbeds of musical activity, Champaign is the perfect launching point for an internet-based album promotion and HereThere-EveryWare is pleased to make CO2/21st Century S.O.S. available for purchase online. The two tracks described above are available for free as MP3 files ready for full-fidelity playback. Also online are RealAudio(TM) samples that provide a convenient taste of the album in various resolutions to meet any level of connectivity.

Official band page: www.co2band.com
MP3 Promo: www.co2band.com/co2/mp3.html