Sixteen Worlds

Sixteen Worlds was recorded in late 2006 and released on 13 April 2007. It is not known why the number sixteen is signifcant. The CD includes just ten songs; however, the inner sleeve of the liner notes includes sixteen small photographs.

Upon its release it was billed as having a "forestronic" sound. The songs blend particular ambiences into the music, though not necessarily just forests. For instance, "Backbreaker" samples a suburban street, bird songs, footsteps, and a person beatboxing which suggests a particular setting for the song. "Secret Passage" features footsteps that enter from the left, provide percussion for the song, and exit to the right. All but two songs are instrumentals. "Hands on My Time" includes a single vocal sample: "I once had a lot of time on my hands, but now I have a lot of hands on my time." "All Purpose Grind" has vocoded lyrics that deal with nightmares. The title comes from one lyric, "exactly four hours from the all purpose grind," which refers to the morning cup of coffee that inevitably follows a night of bad dreams.

The cover art features a walking bridge behind warning signs (presumably so cars don't inadvertently drive over it). Floating disco balls fill the scene. The band web site has a feature called the Ramble that is "part interactive album cover, part urban exploration experience, and part repository for things better left off the main site." It lets users explore the area around the depicted bridge and contains several easter eggs, including a fake Wikipedia article about the band. This is intended as a joke since any such article in real life would be immediately tagged for speedy deletion due to the subject's total lack of notability.

The downloadable edition of the album includes an exclusive 15-page PDF. It includes alternate cover art for each of the ten songs plus the liner notes included with the actual CD.

In 2008 the band released a "companion disc" to Sixteen Worlds called Alternate Worlds. It is essentially a remix album with some demos and live versions. Each of its ten tracks is titled with an anagram of the corresponding Sixteen Worlds title.

Track listing

Pleasy to Ease (5:45) - The title is a spoonerism rather than a typo. Note that the song opens with church bells striking thirteen, a reference to track 10.
Under the Binary Trees (5:14) - The title refers to the data structure rather than a physical tree
Secret Passage (4:45)
Hands on My Time (4:31) - The sound in the intro is a person trying to start a snowblower
All Purpose Grind (6:20) - The title refers to a kind of coffee
Daddy Longlegs (2:10)
Backbreaker (5:43) - The title plays on the setting, a sidewalk, and the childhood game of "step on a crack, break your mother's back"
Bridge to Nowhere (5:00)
Pound of Nails (6:26) - Here "pound" is a pun for striking repeatedly and the unit of measurement
Strike Thirteen (4:20) - The title may be a play on the strikes in baseball, the idea of a clock that "strikes thirteen," or the bowling strike that ends the song (and the CD)