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Psychic Emperor

 
 
iconoplast
17:37 / 21.02.07
My friend played me a track from an EP he'd just bought.

It's a live recording from an LA radio station.

It is one guy, singing in a hgh falsetto and playing acoustic guitar.

He is accompanied by beats made with a sequencing program on a Game Boy.

The CD itself comes, not in a box, but on a blank ceramic tile with a rubber nipple in the center.

Darrin Weiner (Beat and tech guy from Modest Mouse) is in the band. As is Jeremiah Green (Modest Mouse) and James Bertram (Built to Spill)

The most bizarre thing about the recording is that the music is somehow great - even if I hadn't known about how it was made and packaged, I still would have liked it. As it is, I love it and want to know more.

Barbelith, what can you tell me about Psychic Emperor?
 
 
Jack Denfeld
15:39 / 13.03.07
Wow. I just looked up some of this stuff, and they have a bunch of Misfits covers that sound kinda weird and funny but kinda good.
 
 
Jack Denfeld
15:42 / 13.03.07
Must listen 100 more times and see if it's still good, or if it's just the weirdo factor.
 
 
ZF!
19:09 / 13.03.07
This is great stuff!

I'm a big fan of BTS and MM, so I'm surprised I'd not heard of this.

Thanks!
 
 
Mono
20:28 / 13.03.07
Weird, weird, weird. I know a bunch of those people, but lost touch with most of 'em when I moved to England four years ago...
 
  
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