In the late 1970's Athens, Georgia was buzzing with a raw but sophisticated music scene. The turn of the decade began producing new sounds from bands like the B-52's, R.E.M. and Art-Rock luminaries, Pylon.
Bleeps, drones, tone sweeps echoes, the sound of a galaxy we were on the verge of inhabiting; it's a record at once wholly of its time and wholly of ours - since we live in that distant 21st century of weird electronic music.
Popular gaming site Kotaku named it among The Best Game Music of 2011, calling the music "remarkably soothing," and The Guardian has compared Rosenfeld's delicate piano and sparse ambient motifs to legendary artists Erik Satie and Brian Eno.
System of a Down is the debut studio album by Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, originally released on June 30, 1998, by American Recordings and Columbia Records.