Sunday, December 03, 2006

MIDNIGHT MOVIES


ARTIST / BAND: MIDNIGHT MOVIES
SONG (MP3): PATIENT EYE (EDIT)
ALBUM: Patient Eye/Golden Hair
FILE UNDER: Psychedelic / Pop / Indie
LABEL: New Line Records
INFO: idnight Movies would have you believe that Los Angeles isn’t just Andy Warhol’s garishly two-dimensional Marilyns—shallow, neon, and soulless. Nor would they equate the city to the hip-hop murals of Keith Haring, or some graffitied gangsta’s paradise, all bling bling and big pimpin’. The LA that surfaces in the music of Midnight Movies is a hazy, mysterious thing—warm, eerie nights, and ghosts of great actors haunting a would-be desert town. The music itself is the landscape’s appropriately ghastly space-rock soundtrack, reminiscent of outfits like Yo La Tengo and Stereolab, and fronted by Nico sound-alike Angeleno Gena Oliver, the band’s drummer and principal songwriter.
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