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Shortwave radio squeals, Beatles-esque tape loops and healthy doses of analog knob-twiddling all underscore the pure-sugar pop tones of Snow Gas Bones. Meow Meow exists somewhere between Brill Building tradition and grandpa's pre-war 78 rpms played with a broken stylus. With hypnotic visual projections, all members sharing vocal duties and swapping instruments, they've brought their kaleidoscopic live shows up the west coast, down to SXSW and soon to the UK and Japan.
Meow
MeowSnow Gas Bones (Devil in the Woods)
Former Pink Noise Test guitarist Kirk Hellie composes a feel good
dose of California pop harmonies with the experimental art wreck
that is Meow
Meow. Joining him for debut album, Snow Gas Bones, is Christopher
O'Brien (vocals/guitar), Michael Orendy (bass) and ex-Plexi drummer
Norm Block,
who all add their own frazzled instrumentation. It's a patchwork
of melancholy indie rock ("Finis"), chunky bits of radio-friendly modern
rock ("Disaffected") and just the right amount of trimmings
("Sick Fixation") to make the collective grin from ear to ear.
Meow Meow makes it hard to place them in one genre, and that in itself
is a brilliant effort. There's no pretense other than to spark a glorious
sonic dream, much like the gossamer haze of "Amplified Breathing
Apparatus" does. Nuzzle up to the warm buzz. (MACKENZIE WILSON)
April 19, 2004
"Aren't
ears brilliant?!
Much
in the same vein as twisted psychedelic Welsh warlocks Super Furry
Animals-locked away somewhere marked "Kevin Sheilds'
cupboard of things that make funny noises when you push them" and skinning
up the wings of crushed butterflies-LA indie noise quartet Meow Meow
are the reason God gave man ears. Because 'Snow Gas Bones' contains
multiple reasons to give thanks for the existence of lugholes.
Witness
the fuzzy pop of 'All I Ever Got', which would be merely brilliant
even if it wasn't for the minute of ace alien shag sounds plonked slap
in the middle of it. Likewise the docile plod of 'Amplified Breathing
Apparatus'. Sounding like Brian Wilson snorting sherbet off the warped
grooves of pre-war gramophone records, it's conclusive proof that Meow
Meow really are the cats that got the cream."
(James Jam)
September 18, 2004
You and your song "All I Ever Got" are Day 27 in my Song of the Day "MySpace Discoveries" Theme Month (yeah, I missed a few days). I love your sounds. Cheers!
