http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=15598
'hella' has also produced other electronic+rock blends worth a listen.
this is an interesting topic. i can't believe there's been no discussion of 'the double gone chapel' ...or have i been sleeping?
quoted 31 lines From: Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org>
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> From: Adam Piontek <adam@damek.org>
> Date: 2005/01/06 Thu AM 11:51:13 EST> To: idm@hyperreal.org> Subject: [idm] Menomena?
>
> 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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