Space Mountain - I Lost My Mind Inside A Cathoide Ray Tube
I used to live with a bunch of dudes in Long Beach who make really amazing music, but they tend to stick to a single genre, so I was really surprised when I went back to the house after I’d moved out, walked in like I still lived there, and heard something new–and aurally phenomenal–coming from the downstairs bedroom. Turned out to be a new addition to the house - another Mike - doing what he does, alone in his room. I fell in LOVE with it. Dude was producing sounds that reminded me of all that was good about Ariel Pink, only way less accessible. I got him to come out and asked him about it. Turned out he had a project going with a friend of mine, and they were gonna play soon. You know how there are those bands that are like, really good to listen to on a record at home the one time you decide to smoke weed this year? Space Mountain should fall into that category but they don’t. I saw the most marvelous thing happen when I went to one of their shows.
Their offensive, inaccessible, anti-melodic, anti-rythmic sounds actually ATTRACTED audience members rather than drove them outside to smoke cigarettes and wait for the next band to come on. When these two dudes started playing, there was literally nobody watching them but by the end of their masked performance (if I remember correctly, one was wearing sunglasses bigger than my face that belong to this dude, and the other a Transformers helmet), the entirety of the night’s attendees, who came to see The Year Zero, were eagerly seated and anxiously waiting to find out what Mike and Ernie (their names) would do next.
I think they just threw shit and and walked off stage.
Anyway, now they have another dude and may actually have decided not to play together anymore. Let’s hope that, at least for our sake, they give us a record or something.
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