Not that they take themselves too seriously or anything, but Enigma have placed a countdown clock on their website, enigmaspace.com, in anticipation of their new album, 'Seven Lives, Many Faces.' Before you soil yourself with excitement, don't believe the hype: the clock is for the European release from this German giant. Americans will have to wait eleven additional days -- to September 30 -- to get their hands on a copy.

In the album's press release, Enigma's Michael Cretu hints that the album, which was drafted from his digital archive of 400,000-plus sounds, is partially a cross-breed of symphonic string arrangements with driving hip-hop beats.

Never one for pretension, Cretu says, "The idea behind Enigma is to make the impossible, possible." They should probably start with more accurate, geographically-minded countdown clocks (which, by the way, is totally possible).