Oppressed by the Line
Soft Focus
DRIFTING002
September 16th 2008
CD (Gatefold Eco-Wallets)

Jon Thompson grew up in a small industrial town outside of Houston, Texas. Close to the coast, it's the sort of small American town where his only window into the bigger world of music was staying up until 1am on a Sunday night to watch 120 Minutes on MTV. Perhaps it was this, as much as anything else, that led him to pick up a guitar and seek solace amongst the rhythm and the sound.

After stints in many bands, Jon turned his 4-track diversion into his main project. Upon visiting the Tate Modern in London, he christened the project Oppressed by the Line; named after a quote on a placard under a painting by Yves Kleine. The quote read, "I adopt the cause of the colour oppressed by the line".

The painting is gone, but the music remains. After 3 years in London, in which he released his debut, "The Cause of the Colour" on Club AC30, OBTL stands ready to release the follow up. "Soft Focus", is overall richer in texture and more thoroughly realized than it's predecessor. Soft Focus is 10 tracks of mournful melodies and sonic bliss.

01 Condensation
02 Sorry I Never Wrote You Back
03 Don't Bestow the Lesser Things
04 The Stars are Sleeping
05 Solitude
06 I Can't Remember the Sound
07 Static Images and Soft Whispers
08 Thousands of Miles and an Ocean Away
09 Shattering Glass Houses
10 Magnetic North