the illiterati is pop music

music made with microchips and melodicas,
sweet singing and six-string-strumming, tapped-out,
taped-up drum machines and joy-drunk-heart-machinations…

these songs have lyrics
except when they don’t

what do they sound like?
we’ve been known to listen to the kinks, depeche mode, d.j. shadow,
sigur ros, grandaddy, air, brian eno, autechre, and badly drawn boy,
if that helps you at all

so
from our boom-box to yours,
we present our latest record:
“oh flaming sword! oh tree of life!”
a composition of eleven songs,
each a part of a whole.
enjoy