Andy Snyder (guitar/bass/keys/vocals) and a rotating collective: Clay Andrews (also does all mwu art) and Sim Cain on drums, Rachel Kolster on bass/violin, Todd Carter on guitar/keys
Influences
Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Syd Barrett, Big Star, Shins, Kinks, Nick Drake, Beach Boys, Velvet Underground, Beatles, Zombies, Replacements, Soft Boys/Robyn Hitchcock, Smiths, Tim/Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Skip Spence, 13th Floor Elevators, My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, Television, Sonic Youth, Guided by Voices, Sea and Cake, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, REM, Mitch Easter, Scott Miller, Stereolab, Cat Power, Yo La Tengo, Sebadoh, Slowdive, Belle and Sebastian, Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno, Superchunk, Jeremy Enigk, Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev, Liz Phair, Throwing Muses, Jim O'Rourke, Will Oldham, Low, Bjork, Talk Talk, Mommus, Pastels, Nirvana, Pedro the Lion, Ariel Pink, Daniel Johnston, and these local comrades: Sufjan Stevens, TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, Animal Collective, Jennifer O'Connor, Dawn Landes, Nicole Atkins, Danielson, The Rapture, Secret Machines.
Sounds Like
getting your ears cleaned; a baptism to go; Me We Us, strange feet washing
Clear the way, that's what they do: the subway. The name "Mobile Wash Unit" comes from the NYC patriots that clean the subways. Their trucks were always passing by the late night practice sessions at Andy's house in Greenpoint, so he thought it fitting to name the band after them. The task at hand for this Mobile Wash Unit, though, is to clean your head: going from just Me to a group of We to a collective Us.
Andy got his first guitar when he left Emory to attend University of Chicago Divinity School. He had played bass in several Atlanta bands between his time in the physics lab and traveling to debate tournaments. Yet, he expected a life of solitude in his new theological world. Indeed, after he got a four track, he disappeared for hours after the daily 8am greek class. Still, he managed to get through--even though he spent more time talking to his advisor about Bob Dylan than his thesis. He moved to New York to start a philosophy PhD program and work in a church on Park Ave. He teaches philosophy at the City University of New York.
What's goin' on Mobile Wash Unit? May you be as vivid as your hallucinations. Please let me hear more of that wonderful sound. Your layers of absinthe and torsion form concretions of hyper-alimentation. I desire to see life through your hallucinations so that they massage my viscera into an eternal state of turgid flux. In your absence I am forced into finding other forms of amusement while thinking about you. I find your eyes to be a wondrous amusement park filled with neo-plastic pleasures and turkish delights. May you always have stables of horses to service your needs. I keep searching for you between the cushions. Your hair sends forth a sheen remniscent of golden sunlight winding through shadows. Your intoxicating reflection can but incorporate freely into the powerful surface of a disintegrating mirror set afloat upon a swarm of locusts. In your presence even my shadow acquires the sensation of touch. The skin I shed is a perfume that makes water bubbles so terribly clear to me.
Thanks for the friendship! I like your music for many of the same reasons I like the music of Brian Eno - too many reasons to list here! Very cool tunes. I'll stop by often to listen Best wishes from Bakersfield California. - Jeff
