2011

Brooklyn-based orchestral pop quintet Miracles of Modern Science are pleased to release their highly anticipated debut, Dog Year, available digitally today. You can stream the album in its entirety at Paste. The band will celebrate the release on Tuesday, December 6, at Pianos in New York City.
If you see Miracles of Modern Science loading their classical instruments into a New York rock club and mistake them for another band’s string section, they don’t mind. It makes for a bigger surprise when you hear what they can do with just mandolin, violin, cello, upright bass, and drums. Miracles of Modern Science push the limits of these antique instruments, reaching heights and depths unexplored by guitars.
MOMS recorded Dog Year simply, their dense instrumental counterpoint leaving little room for overdubs. Indeed, the band meticulously crafted and honed their arrangements down to the last pluck before taking their songs into the studio. “A MOMS song usually starts with a simple hook,” says vocalist/bassist Evan Younger. “But that hook goes through this gauntlet of musicians never satisfied with ‘simple,’ until it’s transformed into something completely out there.”
“But after all that, we whittle it down until it sounds like a pop song again,” adds mandolinist Josh Hirshfeld. “Almost.”
Tracklist:
01. MOMS AWAY!
02.Strangerous
03. Tensity
04. Eating Me Alive
05. Quantum of Solace
06. Luminol
07. Friend of the Animals
08. Space Chopper
09. I Found Space
10. The Moon & Australia
11. Bossa Supernova
Live Date:
12/06 New York, NY, Pianos

