Light-Reactive Synths at the Ready!
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Light-Reactive Synths at the Ready!
Posted on: Sunday, 18 May 2008, 09:00 CDT
THE WORD ON THE WEB LA-based experimental garage-punkers The Mae Shi were brought together in 2002 by a love of music DIY. Since then they have tirelessly experimented with guitars, drums, self-constructed light- reactive synths and, most importantly, their voices. Their influences range from Brian Eno and Captain Beefheart to Abba and Missy Elliott, and their music, which may sound effortlessly thrown together, is highly polished, highly strung rock. Their new single “Lion and Lamb” (Moshi Moshi) is out on Monday: a joyous, fast and furious roller-coaster ride of electric guitars, a capella harmonies and bleeps. See for yourselves - they’re on tour now. Sonia Zhuravlyova
pitchforkmedia.com “The band has quit cramming as many breakneck riffs as possible into each convulsive track, chilled out, and begun to focus on linear songs. More than that, the LA six-piece has finally made an album that matches their grand ambitions.” indieworkshop.com “The Mae Shi play rock’n'roll for the ADHD masses. They play tightly packed songs that sound as though they have been conceived in a pressure cooker. Everything sounds as though the wheels are on the very edge of falling off.” 30music.com “‘Can’t’ is not a word in their recording vocabulary, but neither is ‘melody’. Don’t expect to be humming any of these tunes on Main Street, but it is possible that you will have as much fun listening to their music as the Mae Shi did making it.” splendidezine. com “Their album isn’t a collection of songs so much as one really long piece of nutty, spazzed-out punk-garage-electronic music. At 15 minutes, it’s actually short enough to be one song, but dense enough to be any other band’s entire catalogue.” popmatters. com “The Mae Shi are more than capable of writing three-minute hits, but let’s hope they never take Ritalin. As the human attention span dwindles, the Mae Shi’s Visa Credit Card one-minute anthems may well become the …continue reading