The American Dollar

post-rock // cinematic ambient

Please click play. Then click full screen. Big headphones are recommended, as well. “Anything You Synthesize” comes with a heavyweight cerebral punch, but it’s delivered a on silken aural ether. The American Dollar, a Queens, NY duo, construct experimental ambient sonic explorations with a healthy rock influence. This video, created by the Onesize design studio, turns a cinematic song into an enveloping sensory experience. (thx, zimsical)

Mighty sonic expertise meet visual cameracraft.
The American Dollar – Anything You Synthesize
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Posted by Paul Irish on Wednesday, February 25th, 2009 under rock.

32 Responses to “The American Dollar”

  1. ThisMusicSucks said on February 25th at 1:00 pm :

    The music is amazing and the film clip was an incredible storyteller. Very nice way to wake up this morning. :)

  2. dirkhaim said on February 26th at 12:53 pm :

    Cool post rock stuff + great writing

  3. haxy said on February 27th at 1:34 am :

    absolutely my type of music! it’s so beautiful! please please post more stuffs like too! thank you for introducing the american dollar to me.

  4. Jim said on February 27th at 12:30 pm :

    I haven’t visited this site in a month or so. Coming back, almost every entry on the main page is fantastic and varied. Keep up the good work.

  5. charlie said on March 2nd at 12:13 pm :

    delicious and beautiful. thanks!

  6. Daniel said on March 5th at 11:19 pm :

    American Dollar oO

    Have to thanks stumble once again for coming up with quality content that id never ever find myself ;p

  7. Ted said on March 18th at 11:01 am :

    I LOVE this song…More like this. Great website! Stumbled on it!

  8. BOOMFOX said on March 23rd at 3:55 pm :

    Really great material – stumbled upon this :)

  9. Chris said on March 28th at 5:01 am :

    Thx 2 who ever made added this 2 stumble. Really nice vid/music.

  10. jason.e.f.monk said on March 31st at 3:56 pm :

    Awesome song and video! This is my first visit to the site, it’s wonderful! I’ll definitely be visiting Aurgasm again.

  11. Taylor said on April 1st at 2:46 pm :

    Cool song, I really like the video. Reminds me a lot of Explosions in the Sky. The only thing that bothered me was I think the compressor artifacts they used as an effect at the end of the song kind of squelched the cathartic build they were going for by keeping the ambience of the drums and pianos from reaching their full potential. I’ve heard this done on a couple of songs lately; it must be a new production fad or something. Let’s hope it doesn’t get abused on the level of snare drums with gated reverb from the 80’s. Cool track overall though, and Aurgasm is my favorite place to hear about new music.

  12. Kathleen said on April 11th at 9:29 pm :

    Holy shit holy shit holy shit! This was amazing. Wow

    I just didn’t like the bunny at the end. But other than that…. it was great. I really liked the flies at the beginning.

  13. Kyle said on April 14th at 9:13 am :

    Reminds me a lot of BT & his videos. Very cool.

  14. Penelope said on April 18th at 8:52 pm :

    This song is amazing! I’m glad to have Stumbled your site!

  15. Maria said on April 28th at 4:58 pm :

    Thank you for this phenomenal music! Just found your website and I’m awestruck! I totally love it.

  16. Ilona said on May 5th at 11:27 am :

    This video is very cool and interesting and I enjoy it! I love The American Dollar and I was searching it for youtube and the other songs is very beautifully too, but “Anything you Synthesize is the best song that I was never heard! : D (I-m sorry, but English is not my mother language : b )

  17. Loli said on May 26th at 6:13 pm :

    glad I came back for the movie. It is a little heartbreaking too. Thank you for a great Aurgasm!

  18. ian said on June 1st at 7:05 pm :

    very nice

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  21. Paul said on August 31st at 1:23 pm :

    Most delightful composition to enhance the video, although tha music alone leaves me when I leave the screen.

  22. ray. said on December 14th at 9:06 pm :

    beautiful

  23. Sonia said on January 20th at 1:23 am :

    i love this <3

  24. Cleber said on January 29th at 2:46 pm :

    awesome!!!!! epic

  25. Jordan said on February 9th at 11:02 am :

    This is such a hopeful story. Love the music as it moved the narrative along the lines of an expectation for tomorrow. Great job. I will pass this along!

  26. Bobbin said on June 10th at 1:27 am :

    If you like this stuff look up Red Sparrows and Russian Circles

  27. Arms & Sleepers | MP3 Music at MixBurner said on June 28th at 11:39 am :

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  28. Allayna said on July 16th at 10:07 am :

    Stumbled onto this review a couple weeks after it was posted. First song I ever heard by these guys, and I’ve loved their music ever since!

  29. Kelly Carpenter said on August 13th at 11:13 pm :

    Loved it! Loved it! I’m just connecting with modern post-rock as I think maybe my music loosely fits this genre. Any suggestions for other great music like this would be appreciated. Cheers!

  30. Wake+Flow said on August 28th at 10:05 am :

    Very dope! Have to start following this group a bit more.

  31. Cory said on August 31st at 7:17 pm :

    Wow.. All I can say!

  32. Zidkim said on October 31st at 8:05 am :

    So surreal and intoxicating!

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