Fred Thomas and Ryan Howard’s City Center is super prolific, and they don’t even have a full length release, yet.

Some of you might recognize Fred Thomas from Saturday Looks Good To Me, or if you catch Chain and the Gang and the Hive Dwellers on tour he will be playing in both of their bands…but to me you can set these acts aside and take City Center on it’s own.

The City Center blog has been booming with mp3s over the past year or so, and if you just scroll through you can end up with over a 100 mp3s on your computer for free download (reason enough to want to support these guys on the physical releases).  On top of the mp3s posted they have released three 7″s (one of which was a split with Grouper), and numerous tour CD-Rs (and maybe an actual CD EP at some point).

City Center is mostly electronic and range from atmospheric sound scapes to noisy  pop….all based in the realm of guitar, synthesizers, and other electronic devices.  I have posted several mp3s from their blog on the great pumpkin since I started (check out my other posts here) , and I am really excited to finally get my hands on a full length (I was lucky enough to snag copies of all of the 7″ and the Gold Girls 7″ was my favorite single of last year!).

City Center album appropriately titled City Center is coming out on Type Records in the US on June 8th.  Type is the label that released Grouper‘s Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill…and you will recall if you tried to get a copy of the LP that it went out of print immediately.

The City Center LP will be limited to 500 copies, and of these 500 the band will be getting about 100.  They want people who love their music to get these records, and have made them available for pre-order it here (more info is also available through this link).

I grabbed mine last night…I recommend that you get yours soon too.

If You need more convincing (all mp3s via the City Center blog):

[mp3] City Center- “Open/House” (off of the upcoming self titled full length…Buy it Here)

[mp3] City Center- “Obvious”

[mp3] City Center- “Girlfriend in a Coma” (Smiths cover)

[mp3] City Center- “Practical Thaw”

City Center has several other releases coming up as well:

4-song 12″ Title TBA (Troubleman)
“Life Meeting” Cassette (Pleasuredome Tapez)
“Cops Don’t Care” 7″ (M’Lady’s Records)