Art-pop duo Fischerspooner will release their sophomore album, Odyssey, April 5. “Just Let Go,” the first single from the album has already hit the radio and Capitol Records has just released a remix 12-inch featuring mixes by Thin White Duke (a.k.a. Jacques Lu Cont and Tommie Sunshine.

Odyssey is a follow-up to their smash debut, #1, which proved to be a worldwide hit. After more than two years of work, the duo was inspired by “[t]hat warm seventies FM sound coming off the radio from bands like The Beatles or Pink Floyd," Warren Fischer said. “I was thinking of songs I remembered hearing on the radio as a kid.”

In order to get the sound for which they were shooting, the pair created a “virtual band,” bringing session musicians into studios in Brooklyn, New York, where Fischer worked with longtime engineer and collaborator Nicholas Vernhes (Fiery Furnaces, Black Dice).

Fischerspooner also worked with those outside of their inner circle. The duo worked with hit songwriter Linda Perry and the late Susan Sontag in an effort to reflect the twin pillars of high art and pop culture.

"When I approached Susan, it was September 2003" Casey Spooner said. "I went to her house and had this fantasy that we would pick something to work on together from my notebook of ideas." Instead, after a brief discussion, she disappeared into her library and returned 15 minutes later with a printed sheet of lyrics titled “We Need A War.” "I read them and said, 'I don't think I can say the word 'war.' I'm not comfortable saying it." Sontag responded, "You need to get comfortable saying it. Your president approved $80 billion for a war in Iraq yesterday."

That was just one time where the stresses of putting the album together affected the duo. We both went a little crazy making the album," Spooner said. "We really had to grow and change as artists, and change is never easy."

The track listing for Odyssey follows:

“Just Let Go”
“Cloud”
“Never Win”
“A Kick in the Teeth”
“Everything to Gain”
“We Need a War”
“Wednesday”
“Happy”
“Ritz 107”
“All We Are”
“Circle (Vision Creation New Sun)”