I'm surprised I haven't heard Menomena mentioned anywhere on the list.
They're a 3-piece band from Portland that uses software to help them
compose or generate song structures. Their first album is "I Am the Fun
Blame Monster" - an anagram of "the first menomena album" ... kinda
sophmoric, but...
Their music comes out sounding kind of electronic, even glitchy at
times, and then swerves into indy-rock sounds, and then goes back. It
has some good variety with sax-o-ma-phones and piano and organ and stuff.
I just heard about it a couple of days ago, although the title sounds
familiar, like I've heard it mentioned somewhere else before. I've been
listening to it for a few hours and I find at times I wish they'd stop
singing, and then there are long stretches of instrumental playing where
I wish they'd start up again. Kind of a paradoxical recording.
I'm not saying it's some wonderful, amazing, best of 2004 kind of thing,
but it's an interesting album and I'm wondering what anyone else on the
list thinks or knows about it.
?
-Adam
damek.org
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