Artist: Dan Deacon

Album: Bromst

Label: Carpark Records

Equation: Sum of cubes factorized

Artist: Bonnie Prince Billy

Album: Beware

Label: Drag City

Equation: Wasobian theory of neo-folk

Artist: U2

Album: No Line on the Horizon

Label: Interscope

Equation: Wasobian clusterfuck formula

Artist: Morrissey

Album: Years of Refusal

Label: Lost Highway

Equation: Quadratic Formula

Artist: Lily Allen

Album: It's Not Me, It's You

Label: Capitol

Equation: Equation of an Elliptic Cylinder

Band: Franz Ferdinand

Album: Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Label: Domino

Equation: Equation of an Ellipsoid

click image to enlarge

Band: Antony and the Johnsons

Album: The Crying Light

Label: Secretly Canadian

Equation: Distance Between Two Points (2-D)

(Welcome to Rock Math, where each week Ryan Wasoba will explain a newly released album with the aid of a mathematical equation.)

Band: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band

Album: Greatest Hits

Label: Columbia (available exclusively at Wal-Mart)

Equation: Equation of an Ellipse

 click image to enlarge

(Welcome to Rock Math, where each week Ryan Wasoba will explain a newly released album with the aid of a mathematical equation.)

Band: Animal Collective

Album: Merriweather Post Pavilion

Label: Domino (vinyl out now, CD release on 1/20)

Equation: Quadratic Formula