Album name: The Search for Metropolis
Release date: November 6, 2001
Release format: CD
Studio name: Metal XOR Studio
Tracks:
1. I'm Friendly When Asleep
2. From Cousin B
3. The Theme from Eight Concepts
4. Dreaming the Sky
5. Encounter
6. It's All Right
7. A Thousand Words
8. Urban Gaxiola
9. Battlefield: Tycho
10. Ageless
11. Cambrian Explosion
12. Red Ray
13. Ocean Body
14. Jealous Circle
15. Market Connections
16. 100,000 Punctuated Breaths
17. Frozen Pipes
It had been four years since the previous Mune Mud album release (Sleep State F from 1997). And the music was now more polished and better produced than ever. And part of that was the fact that this was the first Mune Mud album released on CD.
It was crunch-time, the album was nearing completion and it still needed a title. For some reason it was difficult to name this album. Jason had been looking for ideas for weeks. One day he was at his dad's house. His dad was talking about the old Superman TV show that he watched over and over. He went on to say how we was taking clues from various episodes to try to figure out where Metropolis was supposed to be located. Then the album title hit Jason like a speeding locomotive... the search for Metropolis!
The album cover sported a painting by one of Jason's long-time inspirations, Salvador Dali. Dali had inspired a few songs by Jason back in the early to mid 90's. The reason this particular painting was chosen is because it was what Jason based his song "Suburb of a PCT" on, which is the unlisted "hidden" track on The Search for Metropolis (it is tacked on at the end of the last track, "Frozen Pipes"). The inside of the album cover was a collage of images and lyrics from the album (see image below).
This collection of songs was a lot more upbeat and positive than many previous albums. Since Sleep State F, many changes had occured in Jason's life. He had started dating his future wife, whom he married in 2000. He had bought his first house and moved the Studio once again. And the first Star Wars prequel movie had been released. It was a period of new beginnings.
There was a publicity poster created for the album on Saturday, August 4, 2001. There were a few hard copies posted, but it had more distribution as an email to Metal XOR Studio fans. The poster showed the same piece of Dali art as was on the album cover with a list of the songs underneath (in alphabetical order).
Next week's Album of the Week: Hobson's Choice by Mune Mud from 2004.
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