Tyler Hammer- drums
Chris Prpich - bass
Etienne Soulodre - steel
View The Lazy MKs's EPK
The new EP is available at Itunes, Chapters Indigo and various retail outlets around Regina!
Influences
Louis L'Amour, Wallace Stegner, John Muir, Aldo Leopold, Wendell Berry, Ivan Illich, rain, air temperature, evapo-transpiration rate, cattle prices...
Sounds Like
"The songs themselves are rooted deeply in rock and roll, offering two- and three-minute tunes that bounce and swell with noise, each element cascading over the other. It’s a rough-hewn style that recalls the tumbling fields of the prairies, constantly on the verge of a strong gust of wind and sound that pushes the song in a new direction. " www.soundsalvationarmy.com
"It's purely instrumental shoegaze roots music to get you switched on" www.narrowcrafts.blogspot.com
Also sounds like:
swamp boats, Picea glauca, male northen pintails, running shoes on gravel, bull elk, mass wasting, peak flows of the Bow River...
The Lazy MKs are a steel guitar post-rock band from Regina. Their sound IS Saskatchewan; vast and sprawling, rugged and harsh. It's three individuals doing the work of a dozen men. Steel guitars rise and cascade over twisting rhythms and thunderous low end like a scorching prairie sun over the hen house. The band formed around the idea that instrumental music could still resonate with music lovers, like it did for the Venturers or Booker T and the MGs. Not that this a rehash of 60s instrumental pop. The MKs brand of cinematic rural post-rock pulls from Merle Haggard, cuban son, Billl Munroe, motown, Beastie Boys...roots in everything and sounds like nothing else. The name pays homage to great grand dad's cattle brand but these boys are definitely drinking upstream from the herd. Their debut EP, "A Field Guide To" will inspire hard core cowboys and hipster zealots to hipsters to hang their hats in the same place, drink whiskey from the same still, and take a road trip the the realization that their places in the universe are not mutually exclusive. They share stages and audiences with some of Saskatchewan's finest, including The Deep Dark Woods, Volcanoless In Canada, and Shuyler Jansen, and with the release of "A Field Guide To" they are finally willing and able to share 6 tracks with the rest of planet earth. The new EP is available on Itunes and from Chapters Indigo!
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