Mars Argo - 2012 (2012)

Brittany Alexandria Sheets was born on 20 April 1988 in Saginaw, Michigan, and is an American singer, songwriter and internet personality, best known by her stage name Mars Argo. After meeting Corey Michael Mixter (a.k.a. Titanic Sinclair) on Myspace, they worked together on the YouTube channels digitalfuntown and grocerybagdottv, and later formed the alternative pop band Mars Argo. The band released their debut album, 'Technology Is A Dead Bird', on 6 November 2009, and this was followed by an acoustic EP, 'Internet Sessions', in 2010, and a second EP, 'Linden Place', in 2011. They began working on a second album with Chicago-based producer, Johnny K, soon after 'Technology Is A Dead Bird' was released, but once a number of tracks had been laid down, the duo put their album on hold and moved to Los Angeles in 2012, where they filmed and released the remainder of the YouTube channel's uploads. More songs were later recorded for the album, but the release was pushed back from 2012 to 2013, and then in 2014 the couple separated, although they continued to work together as a band, performing during the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. After a brief hiatus, and revival in December of the same year, they split up permanently in March 2015 without ever finalising their second album. On 17 April 2018 Sheets filed a 44-page lawsuit against Mixter and his new collaborator Poppy (real name Moriah Rose Pereira), alleging copyright infringement, stalking, and emotional and physical abuse being inflicted upon her by the two, in particular accusing Poppy of stealing her look. The lawsuit was dismissed on 14 September, having been settled out of court with agreements that Mixter and Pereira would not be in contact with Sheets, and with Sheets gaining all rights, title and interest to the Mars Argo music and brand. Despite now owning the rights to the music of Mars Argo, the second studio album has never appeared, and so from the many tracks that they laid down between 2009 and 2014, we can pick the ones most likely to have been intended for the record and piece together what could have been the album tentatively titled '2012', and which would have appeared in that very year. 

Track listing

01 Runaway Runaway
02 Using You
03 Be Easy
04 Doctor (Instrumental)

05 Wet Cigarette
06 Open Up The Door In Your Head 
07 Beauty Is Empty 

08 Stuck on You 
09 Wasting Away 
10 Hear Me Out 
11 Me Today
12 Formal Girl
13 Suicide Birds
14 Love In Black And White