Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains Move Outside

05/23/08 6:00pm

We'll still have to wait a little longer for an album, but Sebastien Grainger & The Mountains will issue their debut seven-inch and digital EPs (both titled American Names) on June 10 through Outside Music.

The digital EP will be available exclusively through iTunes and at shows via a poster that will come with a code that will give the purchaser access to the download. It will include "American Names," "Ways To Come Home," "Map Of The World" and "Epilogue (Somewhere Over The Hobo)." The vinyl release will just include the first two songs.

Grainger, the former drummer/vocalist for the now-defunct Death From Above 1979, wrote and recorded the songs at Toronto's Giant Studios. His musical concepts were fleshed out by friends Leon Taheny (Germans), Nick Sewell (The Illuminati) and Andrew Scott (Bicycles, The Meligrove Band), who became The Mountains.

"I don't want to make a 'solo album,'" says Grainger. "The idea of collaboration has always appealed to me.

"What began as more relaxed acoustic guitar and piano-based songs have since taken on a more primal and immediate form. The melodies and ideas are still there, only now with the band they live instead of dream."

Sebastien Grainger And The Mountains have toured with Bloc Party, Albert Hammond, Jr. and Metric. Although no dates are scheduled at the moment, they'll perform this summer before their full-length debut comes out in the fall through Outside.