Neo-prog brainstorm? Techno/SynthPop Frankenstein? Rustbelt New Wave resurrection? Muellercraft is all of the above and more.

Led by songwriter/multi-instrumentallist Jay Mueller, this is a band that brainstorms through the boutique niches of the modern music scene with audacious abandon.

Muellercraft can be myriad layers of lush guitar textures or a simple acoustic strum. An unexpected tempest of massive drumming rumbles forth and then retreats to clear the stage for a sparse electro-beat.

A tapestry of synth textures supports massive vocal pyramids - or lays the foundation for lofty spires of sublime instrumental composition.

With a lyrical vibe evoking the ambition of the Progressive Rock, the pop sensibility of New Wave and the grit of Post-Industrial Techno, Muellercraft asks questions, throws down challenges, and offers unapologetic hope.

Is your mind hungry? Are your ears ready? Then just ... listen!

CD 1:
1. Fast Forward
2. Megacity
3. Better in the Future
4. Our Great Leader
5. Man of the Hour
6. Minister of Love
7. I’m With You
8. When Did It Happen
9. Believe
10. Mission
11. Troubled Sleep
12. Comes the Dawn
13. Age of Reason
14. Move Along

Mastered and mixed by Gary Tanin, the effect of a close working relationship with Jay Mueller, this brilliantly sculpted two-disc recording opens on the building pulsations within Fast Forward and the synthtasic sounds of Megacity and then we get the free spirited 80s synth work of Better in the Future, the warm bass lines of Our Great Leader, the atmospherically driven Man of the Hour, and both the blues-hued Minister of Love and the prog-AOR of I’m With You.

Along next is the pop-rocker When Did It Happen and the free flowing Believe and they are in turn backed by the acoustic Mission, the harder hitting synth lines of Troubled Sleep, the harmonized Comes the Dawn, the first disc rounding out on the gently countrified, mid-tempo rock of Age of Reason and the playful 80s-imbibed beats of Move Along.

CD 2:
1. Help Me
2. Prison of Mind
3. You Can’t Say That
4. The Best We Could
5. The Wrong Man
6. Power to Serve
7. Sabotage
8. Revolt
9. The Price of Victory
10. After the Fall
11. By This Light
12. No Mistake
13. Rewind
14. Remember

The second disc opens on the renaissance-imbibed beats that drive Help Me and the foot to the floor rocker Prison of Mind, and they are backed by the rhythmical rock of You Can’t Say That, the flourishing The Best We Could, the organ-fed, Choir-hued The Wrong Man, and then we get both the alt-pop vibe of Power to Serve and the delightful, veritably ethereal Sabotage.

Up next is the rocker Revolt and the soaring synth chords of The Price of Victory and they are then followed seamlessly by the glorious After the Fall, the R.E.M.-esque By This Light, the all-embracing No Mistake, the disc, along with the collection, closing on the pop-synth lite bounce of Rewind and the impassioned Remember.

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