A lot of musicians pay lip service to having a plethora of far-flung musical influences, but then you listen to their music and it sounds like they've done their best to avoid them at any cost. Citing artists as diverse as Jorge Ben, Brian Wilson, Sergio Mendes, and Curtis Mayfield, AM's first UK album - Future Sons & Daughters - truly delivers on the sum of its parts. AM - born in Tulsa, raised in New Orleans and currently making a home in the artsy Eastside Los Angeles neighborhood of Silverlake and Echo Park - releases Future Sons & Daughters in the UK on August 30th. At times sounding like Jim James of My Morning Jacket singing his way through Beck's lost album between Mutations and Midnite Vultures, the record brings together the best of musical worlds, rippling through classic roots sounds: AM pop and rock, steamy soul and R&B, Brazilian tropicalia, British Invasion, and ‘60s Bay Area psychedelia. Future Sons & Daughters is a tantalizing glimpse at a promising future-pop. Recorded and produced by Charles Newman (Magnetic Fields), the record represents the full flowering of AM's singular gifts: from the warm, sepia shaded hooks of album opener A Complete Unknown (with its addictive "Back and Forth" refrain) to the soaring vocals and softly picked guitars of Darker Days. AM didn't make the album alone, however: "The band really delivered on this album," he says. "Before we got together to go over the songs I made everyone in the band a hand-picked playlist of everything I had been digging on in the last year: obscure Italian soundtracks and Brazilian music, psychedelic Turkish folk, deep cut soul and groove." AM's debut album, ‘Troubled Times' (only released in the US), was named one of the best indie albums of the year by iTunes (2006), and every song from the record was culled for use in American movies and TV shows, such as ABC's Brothers & Sisters and MTV's The Hills. Currently on tour with the French electro-pop duo AIR, AM also supported Charlotte Gainsbourg on her North American tour and opened for acclaimed Brazilian songwriter Caetano Veloso in LA earlier this year. AM also performed at SXSW Festival and the 2010 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. Produced by Charles Newman & AM Metro "AM's easygoing inventiveness makes for a tropical-flavourd smoothie...elegantly produced" more >> Hi-Fi Choice "references a host of musical icons from the sixties and seventies, but clearly avoids sounding derivative or clichéd." more >> redhotvelvet.co.uk "AM certainly doesn’t take himself too seriously, he is interested in the creation of an enjoyable album, and ‘Future Sons and Daughters’ is just that" Entertainment-focus.com "a very polished pop effort..that will keep listeners entertained" more >> Callupontheauthor.com "This is the complete package – great voice, smart lyrics, and excellent music bundled together to produce something really really enjoyable to listen to" more >> IndieLondon.co.uk "Trust us, you’re going to want to buy Future Sons & Daughters so that it can enrich your life!!" more >> The 405 "brilliant songs...well worth a listen" TheMusicFix.co.uk "acoustic pop fans will claim this short and sweet record as a minor gem" Sunday Express "one of the great pop albums of the year...an album to fall in love with" more >> Indie London "buy Future Sons & Daughters so that it can enrich your life!" more >> Shout 4 Music "unashamedly sundrenched music, and it's something of a wee gem...sterling stuff" more >> Q Magazine "it's only a matter of time before AM's entry into pop's arrival lounge... his debut displays a rare talent" more >> High Voltage UK "this is an album in the classic sense, a body of work, well thought-out and coherent." more >> Never Enough Notes "Self Preservation is AM capturing the essence of 60's psychedelic pop...unique and exciting" Q Magazine "This cerebral rumination on life from the LA songsmith channel Beach Boys-esque pop noir and Beck's genre-hopping" Uncut "Bossa shuffle, symphonic strings and counter cultural lyrics...high levels of craft" London Tour Dates "a slice of sun-drenched, West Coast guitar pop...a real grower" more >> Entertainment Focus "undertones of Echo And The Bunnyman or even Gorillaz...don’t expect to be blown away by it but rather swiftly seduced" AAA Music "A great record and definitely one to watch"