The songs are melody driven with big explosive layered orchestrations, at times kind of Bowie-inspired, at other times far less obvious to pigeonhole, with shouted-out-of-breath vocals, or more angry and aggressive textures like with ‘Disasteroid’, a tale about global environmental destruction, which sounds like a ride successively slowing down and accelerating.
The titled song ‘As American as Ones and Zeros’, a sort of reflection about technology, may have a weird reminiscence of some classic rock song with an anthem-like ending, just like the triumphant ‘Breaking up’ with its ascending atmosphere.
The moody ‘I Brake for Guilty Consciences’ seems to follow several rhythms at the same time and it is difficult to make completely sense of the result whereas the more melodious ‘Fire Away’ and ‘Where I have been all my life’ mostly lean on deep and spacey piano chords in the background.
There is always a lot of things going on during these songs which are hard to figure out because inventive and intensively textured and deeply layered, may be just like the wheat posters Josh Mintz used to make with Shepard Fairey.http://www.myspace.com/friendslashlover