a faulty chromosome

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

THE LONELINESS OF THE
S H O R T D I S T A N C E W A L K E R


Very rarely does a writer get sent a press release on someone who they haven't heard before but is compelled enough to click on and listen to. We are spammed so much these days that we often become immune to the plethora of artists vying for attention.

Much like with NME or NW, we just let it go. But the familiar fluro spasticness of the collaged faces of a faulty chromosome, in a disarray of mud-smears and childlike scribbles, coaxed me into clicking 'OK'. And oh, they turned out to be great.

The PR is apt too. They've been described as "a slopbucket of shoegaze tremolo, hand-claps, 8-bit blips, water-damaged Mister Rogers records, mashed casio chords and drum machine’d beats – all bundled up in a warmish childhood memory of hiding beneath the kitchen table in 1986 with their uncle’s overweight cocker spaniel (what was her name? keebo? keeno?)."

Sounding like The Radio Dept with more spunk; Jesus and the Mary Chain with squished keys; unshaven Raveonettes; Pavement on speed; My Bloody Valentine in the rain; Yo La Tengo out of their mold or Belle and Sebastian on a roller coaster.

With layers of shoegaze fuzz and earnest-but-not-annoying vocals backed by fuzz-box bass and squiggles of Moog in the fade out, they're like a glorious hazy nap right after you've woken up from an 8+ hr sleep. Especially their John Mellancamp cover of Jackie O. While not entirely breaking new ground, they are undeniably LOVELY.

Eric, Mike and Matt reportedly can't wait to leave their barely-above-minimum wage day jobs (I hear that!) to tour. But Eric, Mike and Matt: we would love to have you!

So if you, dear reader, were/are "the quiet kid who hides in the library at lunch time drawing pictures in textbook margins", this is your soundtrack.

Stream the whole amazing album here!

a faulty chromosome- Jackie O: MP3

a faulty chromosome- Them Pleasures of the Flesh: MP3

a faulty chromosome- Myspace

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